Yet again our Military has come up with another grand scheme that makes NO
sense and cost tons of money.... My what a shock..... Let me see for
$80,000 I could come up with several alternatives to anything made in
Germany.... and they wouldn't be over engineered or totally incompatible
with the rest of the Military.... I simply lost all tolerance for the
ignorance of buying decisions ...
amazing isn't it....
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
To: Land Speed List <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: government
> Here's a good one. The US Marines have used up their old W.W.II style
Jeeps.
> Guess they really loved those old CJ's. The new Hummers are two damn big
for
> there usage. So instead of buying something American like a new Jeep they
> went out and bought 62 new Mercedes sport-utes. Maybe it was the Diesel
> engine, but at $80,000 apiece it looks like there trying to singlehandly
> prop up the German economy.
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> JB
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