Gates gives thanks for new MRAPs

[unhappycamper]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates thanks workers Friday at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, S.C., where Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are outfitted with communications and other gear.


Gates gives thanks for new MRAPs
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, January 20, 2008

CHARLESTON, S.C. — For Defense Secretary Robert Gates, one e-mail brings home the value of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles.

The e-mail, which was passed on to Gates, is from a sergeant major who described the vehicles as “just lovely,” Gates said.

If it sounds odd for a sergeant major to use the word “lovely,” that’s because Gates admitted to using some poetic license in describing the servicemember’s enthusiasm for the vehicles.

“He was actually considerably more colorful than that in his comments,” said Gates in a speech Friday.

Gates spoke at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, S.C., where MRAP vehicles are outfitted with radios, jammers and other gear before being shipped downrange.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51775



uhc comment: You might want to take a look at the second picture at the link. Yup, that's how we're shipping these bad boys 'downrange'.

[RC]

1. I wonder how long till there is a street legal civilian version?