Im being told that the majority of those 4000 will not be surplused due to be uparmored gun trucks that cannot be demilled.
So, from ~280,000 HMMWW's. 4,000 of them were selected to be auctioned. And out of 4,000 of them, only 25 (well 27 since there's two more listed now) aren't armored and are sold/to be sold?
I'm not an expert on the matter so this is purely speculation.
Let's say there's 280K variants out there. Let's say 100K of them are gone from demil/scrap/war. That means there's 180K left. Let's give the 1033 program an advantage. They got 100K of them. So we've got 80K units left. So they picked 5% out of the 80K to come up with 4,000 units to surplus. So let's use this 27 number of viable, non armored vehicles.
So they picked 0.675% of the 4K units to surplus to sell? The other 99.325% are to be scrapped?
If the were going to only carve out 0.675% of these to sell to the public, why would they have even bothered changing the demil and rules?
I'm just looking at this from a pure numbers perspective, because we all know how "smart" government can be. It just doesn't add up to me why they'd bother for such a tiny drop in the bucket.
(BTW, I know the local NG 20 mins north of me have several unarmored HMMWV sitting in their motorpool. I know the other NG about 35 min east of me has a comparable number of unarmored vehicles sitting as well. I suspect this is a trend all over the US for units that were never deployed overseas)