From: Hutterer, John - Deltec (john.hutterer@deltec.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 05:44:57 PDT
I work with a guy whose Reserve unit loads their FMTV deuces on trailers and
hauls them to Annual Training, just to make sure that they get there. They
manage to keep them operational for most of the two weeks of AT, and then
they load them back up for the trip home. Something tells me that these
won't be real popular vehicles, if and when they start showing up on the
surplus auctions.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Scheffler [mailto:roughdoc@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:00 AM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: Re: [MV] saw interesting MV
> There are articles on things they've been fixing over the course of
> the deployment and ongoing product improvements with S&S as well as
> details on the entire family of vehicles.
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.
They are gutless wonders, and when loaded and pulling a loaded trailer,
struggle to go straight on level hard stand.
No other service has even considered buying the vehicle, and if you note
the Forbes top 100 government contractors, S&S has sold nothing except
these vehicles to the Army.
The Marines bought the Oshkosh tactical truck. For what we have spent in
total on the FMTV family, we could have too.
Doc
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