From: Employee@MilVeh.com
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 09:00:23 PDT
(In reply to the info. noted below)
Very interesting info., thanks. It kinda sickens me
to know this, but I'm still glad you explained it.
So the HMMWVs are being crushed and none are being
sold to the public. What a "typical" waste of our
taxpayer dollars. It's an outrage and its being done
under the radar so very few people will find out.
Those rotten bastards... excuse me, but thats just how
I feel about them.
To my knowledge, not one of those 750 HMMWV's sold to
the public has EVER been a problem to the government
or anyone else. In fact most have been a positive
impact on both buyers and sellers. It's been a
totally positive experience to my knowledge and it
should have been more than enough of an example to
encourage the government to change its policy and
allow more HMMWV's into the public secton to recoup
some money and reduce their overhead.
This brings up an old issue, the government is
supposed to work for us. But, does it really?
I know from a recent experience how litte "we the
people" matter anymore. I was simply trying to show
the DLA how to save a few million dollars and
thousands of man-hours by a simple procedural change.
Even with the support of my Congressman we were given
the bums rush. We received nothing except
bureaucratic responses which were non-answers. What
was the change I suggested? Nothing much, just common
sense, I suggested the DLA (surplus agency) should not
use the E.U.C. (background check) on items commonly
available off-the-shelf. How obvious is that? Duh-uh.
But, noooo... they argued and held fast and we still
have buyers of binoculars getting expensive background
checks, buyers of trucks getting backgrounded, buyers
of telephones.... and so it goes.
Its amazing we are the great country we are today, but
think what we could be if we could somehow get rid of
those civil servant bureaucrats protecting their
little fiefdoms!
- - - wrote:
> United Defense is the maker of the M109 Paladin Self
> propelled gun, and they bid on the Humvees to
rebuild them, but decided to sell them instead, and
> there was nothing to prevent it. I am the guy that
> picked out which Humvees United Defense would take.
United Defense hired a private auction house to
dispose of the Humvees, so there has still never been
a
> Government auction or release of Humvees. This is a
small point, but it is important in that it limits the
> likelihood of future batches of Humvees seeing the
> light of day, and the Army is crushing Humvees
everyday.
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