Who said it wasn't a decent question....the complaint was the devious hand of the reporter who was involved to make certain it was a career enhancement action for him personally.
Ernest did you catch the double-speak about production at 550? The 550 figure is (March/April/May) from sources I have, but the funded production caps out in March. Then there is a residual 818 (Rumsfelds FY05 request which is finished by May. I'm not sure, but I think the production lines go quiet, which is kind of incredible since we stripped 4000 fully armored humvees from Kosovo, Korea and elsewhere to get them into Iraq. I wish the Army would just say, we didn't place the orders fast enough and we are not ordering enough because of funding, but they won't and they didn't and hundreds died this year because of it.