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Army Plan To Divest 13,000 MRAPs Sparks Backlash From Critics

/ May 17, 2013 at 9:18 PM
The Army's plan to divest 13,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles due to high maintenance costs has prompted critics to allege that the service is phasing out a proven, paid-for technology in favor of protecting the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, which is still in development. "They're trying to clear out the MRAP inventory so they can go spend money on JLTV -- it's astonishing," Winslow Wheeler, a former congressional staffer now with the Project On Government Oversight, told Inside the...

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