Yeh, Jim......I figured as much. BAD cop...NO DOUGHNUT!
TJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rice <majrice@hotmail.com>
To: timothy.smith1@worldnet.att.net <timothy.smith1@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fw: [MV] beating a dead horse
>Hey, I like the line-up so just hush and get in line behind me! If you are
>nice, I'll buy two and sell you one. ;^)
>
>Jim
>
>
>>From: "Timothy Smith" <timothy.smith1@worldnet.att.net>
>>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>>Subject: [MV] Fw: [MV] beating a dead horse
>>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:32:55 -0800
>>
>>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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