“WE’RE BUILDING A DOMESTIC ARMY”

Jeez, you’d think it’d at least have a receiver for towing shit wouldn’t ya? Wonder if its got a quadraphonic blaupunkt…….heh heh heh. The worst part? I’ll tell ya the worst part, it only comes in tan. That’s it, but you can add shit like pinstripes, spinners, and so forth.

@bambam, yeah but this thing is for crusing chicks so you can’t worry about that shit till Monday. Wonder if they have a ‘gold package’ so popular with the darker among us.

More welfare for the military industrial complex, but it’s not the first time see WWII.

Logistics: What Is Left Behind In Afghanistan
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July 14, 2013: It’s going to cost some $14 billion to deal with $26 billion worth of American equipment in Afghanistan. Half that cost will be for shipping gear out, but the other $7 billion will be the cost of equipment not worth shipping home and either destroyed or donated to the Afghans. About 78,000 tons of gear will be destroyed, including over 2,000 armored vehicles. Some has to be moved, given to the Afghan security forces, sold locally, or destroyed. About 9,000 MRAPs will be sent back to the United States.

Unlike Iraq, where heavy stuff, like armored vehicles and trucks, could simply drive to a nearby port and be put on a ship, Afghanistan has no ports. The nearest ones are in Pakistan and the road trip is expensive and dangerous because of the theft and the threat of attacks (by terrorists or gangsters seeking “protection” fees). So a lot more gear will be flown out of Afghanistan, which is quite expensive. The current plan calls for 28,000 vehicles and 20,000 shipping containers of gear are to be moved by the end of 2014.

The U.S. and NATO supplies coming in (or going out) via railroad from Western Europe go through Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan This approach costs $400 a ton to move material to or from Afghanistan, versus three times that to truck it in from Pakistani ports, or $14,000 a ton to fly stuff in, or $10,000 a ton if you just fly material in from a friendly (Persian Gulf) port. For example, $600,000 MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) cost $140,000 to fly in from the Gulf. Some 2,000 of these MRAPs in Afghanistan are no longer needed by the United States or the Afghan forces, so they are being cut up for scrap in Afghanistan.

It’s common for troops to destroy, or simply abandon, unneeded military equipment when they return home from a distant place. This occurred on a spectacular scale at the end of World War II, as U.S. forces returned home from just about every part of the planet. Thousands of trucks, combat vehicles, and aircraft were just left behind, some in remote areas where there was no one to use them. The U.S. Navy dumped perfectly good aircraft off the decks of aircraft carriers.

The scale of aircraft abandoned after World War II was staggering. The U.S. built 324,000 aircraft during the war and needed only about twenty percent of those for post-war uses. Most of the 24,000 transport aircraft built were in demand after the war, either for civil or military use. Some of the DC-3 transports are still flying in out-of-the-way places. Some American equipment in Afghanistan will find non-military work. Many of the trucks, for example, are just the sort of rugged transport needed in Afghanistan.

After World War II the 2.8 million trucks could be used in the civilian economy, but the 88,000 tanks and 257,000 artillery weapons could not. Many were disabled and left behind. Much of the stuff was transferred to local allies, but there was sometimes so much surplus that a lot of it can still be found sitting in a jungle, remote forest, or on the bottom of an ocean (or even lake or river). Occasionally an old tank will be discovered underwater in a lake or swamp and dragged out, well preserved and appearing ready for action. The U.S. hopes to avoid this in Afghanistan, but there will no doubt be lots of rusting reminders of the American campaign lying about Afghanistan for decades to come.

Wonder how “The Populace” (National and local) will be paying for the enormous costs of running these vehicles once the dollar “goes South”??

If it boils down to a choice between your local Library Services or your “New Militia” I’d not be betting on the Library being there much longer . . . .

Red v Blue:
Tucker: (taken aback) A car? How come they get a car?!

Church: What are you complaining about, man? We’re about to get a tank in the very next drop.

Tucker: (disappointed) You can’t pick up chicks in a tank.

Church: Oh, you know what? You could bitch about anything couldn’t you? We’re going to get a tank, and you’re worried about chicks. What chicks are we gonna pick up, man? And secondly, how are you gonna pick up chicks in a car that looks like that?
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Tucker: You know what? Forget what I said before. We can definitely pick up chicks in this thing. Probably two or three chicks a piece.

Church: Oh man, listen to you. What’re you gonna do with two chicks?

Tucker: Church, women are like Voltron: The more you can hook up, the better it gets.

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You know, if the Pentagon can find about 150 million dollars to blow on giveaways to local police, as quoted above, perhaps we can cut at least that much out of their budget, since they have so much to give away. Next time they’re talking about cutting DOD funding, I want the FoxNews talking heads to remember this waste of cash. I don’t want to hear any more whining about cutting defense spending below WWII levels-we obviously need to cut their money if they’re so flush they can just give away tanks. Congress should cut their funding and send them to buy, beg, or steal their vehicles back from across the land. What a waste.

gil

Red v Blue is classic! I thought I was the only dork in the universe who thought that shit was funny…

Stuck.. the video you posted at 5:49 pm? Title says “Police chase WWII tank “…

That’s an M60. M60’s weren’t used in WWII. They were phased out when the Abrams came online in 1985.

Whoever titled that video is a dumbshit.

5 molotov cocktails on this wheeled coffin, tires in fire and game is over.
assymetric warfare: used with success since Finland in WW2.

I worked on the MRAP Buffalo down here at the APG.

Every weapon system has its weakness….
Sure, it might me impervious to most civilian rifle fire, and survive an IED, but it lacks an exterior fire suppression system. (hint).

The towns surely won’t be able to fund these things indefinitely.

But I’m sure the Feds will come up with a program for that.

Seems that we are conveniently putting the military hardware in place in every corner of the globe.

Local cops might not be able to use these to their full advantage, but federal soldiers would.

These little towns are just holding and keeping the Feds toys clean.

We are a nation of tools and fools led by the rich and corrupted and psychotic.

The lone wolf will be the first one eaten by the Zombies .Meathead.