The Pentagon is shifting nearly $3.6 billion from the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle fund to buy additional MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles and associated government-furnished equipment, as well as to sustain existing vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recent letter from the DOD comptroller. Robert Hale writes in a Jan. 22 letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) that the total MRAP vehicle requirement is now 26,882, following a recently approved 4,000-vehicle increase that was first...
