Low miles, only driven in one war

[unhappycamper]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2013/09/27/mraps-iraq-afghanistan-ieds-local-police/2882543/



Low miles, only driven in one war
Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
2:12 p.m. EDT September 27, 2013

Free to a good home in a bad neighborhood: pre-owned, carefully maintained, never-blown-to-smithereens Mine Resistant Ambush Protected truck.

As the Pentagon withdraws from Afghanistan and vows never to get involved in any long, deadly wars of occupation, it has a few thousand armored vehicles to spare. So it's been giving them away to local police departments — 75 of them since August, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.

MRAPs did their job saving the lives of thousands of troops from roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, they'll be hitting the mean streets of Columbus, Ohio, where campus police at The Ohio State University can presumably bust beer bashes with the behemoths. Cops in Madison, Wis., another Big Ten party town, can presumably do the same with theirs.

They're free. Mostly. Which is a pretty good deal considering a fully tricked-out MRAP with bomb-signal jammers, radios and a .50-caliber machine gun in the turret can run about $1 million.

[benld74]

1. What are their Feet per gallon estimate?

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Look out Mayberry, Andy and Barney have a new toy!

We paid a million dollars apiece for these things and now we're giving them away to local police departments to play with. Those are some expensive parade vehicles.

[warrant46]

3. Just wait until these Babies are used to BUST UP peaceful protests

Or used to break up Labor Strikes

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Exactly.

The people who see citizens as the enemy have a new weapon in their arsenal, as if they needed another one.