Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Army to shift funds for MRAPs
After finally figuring out that Our Dear Embattled Leader and his faithful Republican minions are going to stuff every last available soldier and Marine into Iraq and keep them there, the Army is now making and effort to provide MRAPs to replace the Hummers, which were named after the best part of their procurement process. To do so the Army needs $1.2 BILLION. To get it they will shuffle funds from other accounts.
To cover the cost, the military proposes drawing money from various accounts used to support nondeployed troops, including $100 million for Air Force depot maintenance. However, the biggest chunk — $663 million — will be taken from the Army program that refurbishes equipment for units between deployments.If I read this right, they don't need to refurbish equipment between deployments, because they aren't coming home? How much money could we save if we extended deployments to 18 months?
According to the Pentagon document, the maintenance workload for this particular effort has decreased because combat tours increased this year from 12 to 15 months.
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