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IIRC, the conversion that "Up-Armors" the HMMWV is not done by AM General (GM), but by an outside firm. The problem is not the supply of HMMWVs, but the capacity to modify the chassis. Commercial HMMWVs have NO IMPACT on the ability to supply the armored version.

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U.S. senator tours Fairfield armoring company (beefing up Humvees to protect our troops

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[Ranger]

O'Gara is the other half of the production along with American General if I'm correct. Civilian production isn't relevant unless modified to military spec unless they are substituted to allow military spec production to be exclusively sent to Iraq. Also I believe its a source of potential productive capacity that is currently untapped to meet a relatively straight forward production problem. 3500 vehicles isn't much to get out the door, but at current rates of betwen 80 and 220 per month its not enough and at that rate it seems likely that we will take 1000 for KIAs before the need is met. What a waste. We can do better.