Comment was intended to speak of the system....not the folks working there.
TJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Rikk Rogers <rkltd@fullnet.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fw: [MV] beating a dead horse
>Whoa... hold on there TJ,
>I have to defend the DRMO,
>despite the fact that the girl that was standing in for the guy I was
>dealing with when he was on vacation said they did not like to get out of
>their offices and crawl under those old trucks and stuff, and get stung by
>bees, and get all dirty, just to have to find out what Mfg. and year a
truck
>might be.
>Yes, she said this deadpan to one of the guys in the yard, his comment was
>that he had been working with that stuff every day for 10 years and had
>never been stung (comment was completely lost on her).
>They are a large Bureaucratic system and as such have the God given right
to
>do anything that is called for by the system or rules before they do
>anything useful or helpful for anyone not above then in the hierarchy.
>They have their rules and regulations and THEY MUST BE FOLLOWED, so we
>should not pick on them just because paper rules over people, or one MV is
>just not a concern.
>
>rikk;-)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
>Behalf Of Timothy Smith
>Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 12:33 PM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>Subject: [MV] Fw: [MV] beating a dead horse
>
>
>Gee Bill, your proposed lineup is pretty harsh. I was never in the service
>and I LIVE for HMV's....showing more interest in them than many former
>servicemen, governmental entities or other just-plain-folks that I know.
>(Not more interest than everybody by a long shot....but most) On the other
>hand, I have been in law enforcement for just shy of 20 years....serving
the
>public longer than most guys EVER spent in the military. It don't
>necessarily mean the world owes me anything. On the other hand, my money
is
>a green as anyone else's.
>
>I will add that I really feel bad that you showed such interest in an HMV
>only to be given the run-around by the pencil-necks. I think we all have
>been there or are going to be there more than once. It's a sad
>story.....DRMO's seem to be a lot of baloney, no matter how we slice it.
>TJ
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: William R. Benson <Benson@eqe.com>
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:45 AM
>Subject: Re: [MV] beating a dead horse
>
>
>>
>>
>>All of this talk about the problems with the auctions simply illustrates
>this
>>megakludged system...
>>
>>A few years ago, I identified the location of a 90% intact M274A5
>Mechanical
>>Mule sitting on a hilltop aboard Camp Pendleton. It wasn't in a firing
>range,
>>it wasn't a target, it was just sitting there, rotting away, and despite
my
>best
>>efforts, I couldn't get anybody in the hierarchy of Camp Pendleton to get
>up off
>>their donkeys and give me anything but the standard party line of "go
>through
>>DRMO" and DRMO wouldn't act on any of my request to find out how to secure
>the
>>beast. As it turns out, I went back to the site, and the mule was gone,
>after
>>sitting there for over ten years...
>>
>>The situation, in a word, SUCKS!
>>
>>I'm of the opinion that servicemembers should be given first crack at
>buying the
>>same trucks that they drove for so long (like my old M151A2), and then
they
>>should be offered to non-military Federal organizations, and then to
>non-profit
>>organizations, and then to historical organizations, and then to
>argicultural
>>and municipal entities, and THEN to the great unwashed... (Those of us
not
>>servicemembers would fall under historical organizations)...
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>
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