Anticipating a production surge of new blast-proof trucks in the next few months, the Defense Department expects to begin moving large numbers of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles -- heretofore almost exclusively airlifted to Iraq -- on ships, according to the U.S. military's transportation chief. Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, said the Pentagon would supplement airlift delivery of hundreds of blast-proof trucks to Iraq with sealift in the "November-December" time frame. "When we get to...
