Pentagon Data on MRAP Allocations Show Army Due for Most Diverse Fleet

By Jason Sherman / September 14, 2007 at 5:00 AM
While the Army is slated to receive the lion's share of the Pentagon's new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle fleet, the service's logisticians will eventually face a daunting task -- maintaining an armada of different blast-proof trucks manufactured by five different vendors. The other services, including U.S. Special Operations Command, will largely have uniform MRAP fleets, according to previously unreported details on decisions made this summer by the Joint Allocation Decision Board, a high-level military panel created to determine how...

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