U.S. military leaders have boosted the Army's share of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle fleet to nearly two-thirds, assigning the ground service 95 percent of the blast-proof trucks ordered in the final batch of fiscal year 2007 production contracts. The Joint Allocation Decision Board, a panel of senior operational commanders and Pentagon leaders established this summer to hammer out plans for fielding newly built MRAP vehicles, convened on Aug. 9 and decided to give the bulk of the 725...
