Hargrove also noted that the number of personnel still with AMC in some capacity who were also in Iraq when the M113 cases were being worked has created a greater understanding of how important these vehicles are to the Iraqis.
"Not just myself, Willie (Collins), Ryan (Calvin), but we have Tim Sullivan in USASAC G3/5 (Operations Division chief) who was the ANAD commander when the work began there, Colonel (Larry) Fuller, our (USASAC) chief of staff who oversaw the AMC maintenance training, and even General (Dennis) Via (who commanded the AMC Responsible Reset Task Force and is now AMC's commanding general)."
Collins and Calvin both commented that the cases seemed to touch everyone in the Army, and the status of the M113s did receive visibility at the highest levels.
"This particular topic was briefed to the vice chief of staff of the Army and the Army staff each month at the Equipment Distribution Review Board," said Conrad Bonner, USASAC G-3/5 director.
Providing the 1,026 M113s that were EDA through the FMS process, and having them refurbished through the public-private partnership are self-evident benefits in that there was cost-avoidance through divesture of the EDA, while the refurbishment resulted in hundreds of thousands of core hour work and kept the skill base exercised in repairing M113s at a key organic industrial base.
"The public-private partnership between ANAD and BAE on this program was important because it provided another good example of how an organic industrial installation can work in partnership with a private corporation to provide best value to customer," explained Phillip Dean, ANAD's chief of Logistics and Business Development Office.
Old and Incorrect reporting.
It was 1026 M113 family of vehicles.
Loosing the words "family of vehicles" changes the meaning considerably.
I wrote of the actual breakdown over 2 years ago yet it still keeps being misreported:
http://home.comcast.net/~djyae/site/?/blog/view/93/
On 20 April, the US DSCA Excess Defense Articles board updated for Iraq in 2010. While many of the major items listed under 22 June 2010 and 24 September 2010 had already been reported, this update finally provided a breakdown of the 1,026 M113 variants being provided to the Iraqi Army:
120 M198 155mm towed howitzers [54 on 22 June and 66 on 24 September];
14 MRAP non-standard [22 June];
20 M88A1 [24 September];
1,026 M113 Family of Vehicles:
618 M113A2 APC [440 on 22 June and 178 on 24 September];
68 M113A2 Ambulances [24 September];
192 M548A1 Cargo Carriers [24 September];
66 M1064 120mm Mortar Carriers [24 September];
80 M577A2 Command Posts [24 September];
2 M577A2 Emergency Medical Treatment Vehicles [24 September].
PS All of those vehicles were delivered by end-2012.
@ DJ Elliott, thank you for your comments - much appreciated. FYI, the report above was issued on the US Army's official website (http://www.army.mil) on 28th June.
- Editor