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4. Its useless stuff the government has to get rid of...

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:24 AM

Jun 2014

before them it was Hum-Vees, before that its was all manner of Chevy Blazers, and assortment of Dodge trucks....crap that was rusting away in military storage lots or armory fields. Once they figure out the up-keep and storage it takes up, it will be consigned to the perennial rust spot in a parking lot, where these things go to die. .

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