To: Vetvoice
Not exactly news, and not limited to General Dynamics. Civilian tech reps have long been used to maintain equipment, even way back before I retired over 20 years ago. They were even used at the depot level during the Viet Nam War.
32 posted on
09/09/2006 2:21:16 AM PDT by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: R. Scott
When the General Dynamic technicians arrived in country (Iraq), their cost to the US was $250,000 each per year plus their convoy of supplies and parts that had to be purchased at list prices each time a Stryker had a flat or flaked out.
Now General Dynamics has a better deal. They are now the ONLY organization that can touch a Stryker to repair it. Presumably they will not charge us $250,000 per man in American military depots but there is no guarantee.
33 posted on
12/23/2006 11:05:11 PM PST by
Vetvoice
To: R. Scott
Name one system during Vietnam that required civilian technicians.
36 posted on
03/24/2007 7:01:41 PM PDT by
Vetvoice
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