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Expedition Leader
http://controversialtimes.com/news/good-god-yes-government-to-auction-more-than-4000-hmmwvs/
According to the Army Times,
“We definitely see lots of interest, and we’re certainly excited to have the opportunity to sell these,” said Randy Berry, IronPlanet’s senior vice president for operations and services. “These items have been scrapped up to now … so it’s a win for the taxpayers and everybody involved here.”
Sitting on a dusty lot at Hill Air Force Base in Utah are 25 Humvees built between 1987 and the mid-1990s, some with visible wear and patchy camouflage paint jobs, and whose odometer readings range from 1,361 to 38,334. The public will have the chance to bid on them in a live online action on Dec. 17 and take home a Humvee that once served as a troop or cargo carrier.
DLA will have some 4,000 Humvees considered surplus inspected for defects — and so long as they’re not taken or have military characteristics, like armor — they will be offered to IronPlanet. Before the restrictions had been lifted, they might have been scrapped.
One potential downside is that AM General, the manufacturer since the Army adopted the Humvee in 1985, has made no secret that it opposes the sale of military Humvees to the public.
The company’s website says it sells parts and / or service information only to military customers and not for Humvees that “wind up in civilian hands.” The company states that it “opposes any use of these military vehicles by individuals or entities outside of the military context for which the vehicles are designed.”
“You can bid any time prior to the auction itself,” Berry said. “We structure ours like events, with all these items selling today, and then a live format, where instead of the auction just concluding anonymously, you get to watch all the items selling.”
Auction winners have three days to pay, must sign an agreement indemnifying IronPlanet and arrange for transportation within 8 days as the vehicles are intended for off-road use only.
Read more: http://controversialtimes.com/news/...-auction-more-than-4000-hmmwvs/#ixzz3LieJtEWl
According to the Army Times,
“We definitely see lots of interest, and we’re certainly excited to have the opportunity to sell these,” said Randy Berry, IronPlanet’s senior vice president for operations and services. “These items have been scrapped up to now … so it’s a win for the taxpayers and everybody involved here.”
Sitting on a dusty lot at Hill Air Force Base in Utah are 25 Humvees built between 1987 and the mid-1990s, some with visible wear and patchy camouflage paint jobs, and whose odometer readings range from 1,361 to 38,334. The public will have the chance to bid on them in a live online action on Dec. 17 and take home a Humvee that once served as a troop or cargo carrier.
DLA will have some 4,000 Humvees considered surplus inspected for defects — and so long as they’re not taken or have military characteristics, like armor — they will be offered to IronPlanet. Before the restrictions had been lifted, they might have been scrapped.
One potential downside is that AM General, the manufacturer since the Army adopted the Humvee in 1985, has made no secret that it opposes the sale of military Humvees to the public.
The company’s website says it sells parts and / or service information only to military customers and not for Humvees that “wind up in civilian hands.” The company states that it “opposes any use of these military vehicles by individuals or entities outside of the military context for which the vehicles are designed.”
“You can bid any time prior to the auction itself,” Berry said. “We structure ours like events, with all these items selling today, and then a live format, where instead of the auction just concluding anonymously, you get to watch all the items selling.”
Auction winners have three days to pay, must sign an agreement indemnifying IronPlanet and arrange for transportation within 8 days as the vehicles are intended for off-road use only.
Read more: http://controversialtimes.com/news/...-auction-more-than-4000-hmmwvs/#ixzz3LieJtEWl
