Marines Will Retain 2,500 MRAPs Coming Out Of Afghanistan

By Lee Hudson / April 15, 2014 at 7:24 PM
The Marine Corps will retain 2,500 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles -- more than twice the number of trucks it had planned to keep last year -- due to be removed from Afghanistan, a top service official said. Lt. Gen. William Faulkner, deputy commandant for installations and logistics, told InsideDefense.com on April 15 that over the next three to four months the service will decide how many of the 2,500 vehicles to reset. Faulkner said Marine Corps Commandant Gen...

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