The cases also proved how well the process can work for both the U.S. and its partner country.
"The importance of completing this program to standards required and in the agreed upon time frame was to show that ANAD can be relied upon to successfully complete the assigned missions and build customer confidence in the FMS arena," Dean said.
USASAC's mission includes building partner capacity, and that accurately describes what the M113s are doing for Iraq, according to Hargrove.
"This provides them an independent capability for internal and external security," Hargrove said. "They were just so proud to have these and to have the training and other support to be able to operate these. Now, it's all about sustaining these vehicles. Which makes AMC an important part of the Iraqi's future and demonstrates its diverse global capability."
(Source: US Army)
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