Pisses me off that they do this to old MV. I was in the NV national guard for a few years and one job I got was to load some of the old manual tranny dueces litterally drove them on the truck to take to the range nothing wrong with them except they had a manual trans thats it! what the heck the states hurting for money I had about 12 trucks like this, why not sell each as is online for a couple thousand each and make some money back on them! nope dumb state. In kuwait and iraq (have not had the fun of afgan yet hope I dont either) we could have used anything that ran for on post work we had a 1009 in kuwait not much left but it ran and did its job good! just really ticks me off that the gov is broke cant find out why they are while the whole time the throw away good hardware thats 100% good still. Heck I pulled from scrap metal yard a complete CVC system for 4 people all cables everything all I did was repair the main board for about 25 bucks! The commo chief saw what I did and said that the system I installed was about 4000 grand worth in parts! So lets gut the old system for a cost of 4000 grand instead of 2 hours worth of work and 25 bucks to fix, yep uncle sam can't figure it out why they are broke. I could go on with all the waste and abuse I saw while I was in but over all seeing the amount of good MV's with no major issues that are thrown away just burns me up. never know what they might have done in the past. At ft.irwin ca there is a huey that the museum restored that was actually sitting on the range getting run up to speed to be blown up, I bring this up as well because this huey was saved for good reason and just barely in time. This huey was shot at in Vietnam a member of the crew ended up getting the medal of honor during the fire fight thank god it was at least saved! people get awards why cant the vehicals they get them in be giving an award like a second life!