From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@attbi.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 02:36:01 PDT
The FMTV's will not fit inot a C141...
If I ever caught the person in the givmint that did that,
they would probably need medical attention....
I agree with an earlier noter: They are a piece of sheet!
It appears to be a political deal and we are paying for it!
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] saw interesting MV
> At 10:29 PM -0400 5/28/02, Doc Scheffler wrote:
> >The FMTV family has been a disaster since it's inception. A product of a
> >company that never built any vehicles before the Army contract, your tax
> >dollars have been used to bail them out so that they could repair them
> >enough so that units could convoy them down the highway at speeds greater
> >than 40 MPH.
>
> Didn't S&S make other types of vehicles before? Like Airfield
> handling, construction and other types of kit?
> >
> >
> >The Marines bought the Oshkosh tactical truck. For what we have spent in
> >total on the FMTV family, we could have too.
>
> Which are not Airportable via C130 as I recall. One of the product
> requirements as I understand it.
>
>
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