Military Vehicles Sit On The Sidelines Waiting For "Factory Authorized Maintenance Technicians"

Military Vehicles Sit On The Sidelines Waiting For

Imagine that you’re stationed at an outpost deep in a conflict zone. Your MRAP’s alternator is busted and you’ve got a spare, but your mechanic tells you that she’ll void the warranty if you let her replace it. It’s either tow the whole thing out or let it sit there wasting space. That’s what American soldiers are up against these days.

This is the same right-to-repair issue that’s affecting farmers, iPhone tinkerers, and even regular old wrenchers across the country, but now it’s making it nearly impossible for our armed forces to do their jobs, and it’s likely the Pentagon’s fault too.


Read Article

MDarringerMDarringer - 2/10/2020 9:59:58 AM
+2 Boost
A call from Trump would end this bullshit.


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/10/2020 10:19:48 AM
+3 Boost
This BS is all part of the corruption in the USA as it relates to military suppliers and govt spending. Look up the Iraq war and see oil tankers abandoned and reordered for the sake of a new wheel that "can't" be sourced. The waste is unbelievable. And it can all be traced back to well connected GOP donors who own these companies. All the corporate money has to be removed from politics and just leave it to people to donate $1,550 a year (max) to a party or campaign.


MDarringerMDarringer - 2/10/2020 12:10:10 PM
-2 Boost
#TDS
#TookTheBait


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/10/2020 12:41:41 PM
+2 Boost
@MD- Nope. This would have been my post had I got there first. The is a story that has been repeated for decades. The US Military Industrial Complex and its hold on the Federal Govt purse needs to be dealt with. The sooner the better.


MDarringerMDarringer - 2/10/2020 1:00:56 PM
-2 Boost
Nice try. You took the bait.


xjug1987axjug1987a - 2/10/2020 8:18:26 PM
-1 Boost
Canadian - simply, GFY... troll DB!


malba2367malba2367 - 2/10/2020 11:55:32 AM
+2 Boost
There are multiple parts to this that show the stupidity of government contracts. First, for what the pentagon spends, they should demand that the warranty will not be voided for repairs conducted correctly where it would not be feasible to transport the vehicle to a manufacturers agent for repair. Second, how would the manufacturer ever know if the vehicle was fixed in the field with the proper spare parts.


countguycountguy - 2/10/2020 12:34:54 PM
+3 Boost
The government is currently a dumpster fire, so this is not surprising.


MDarringerMDarringer - 2/10/2020 1:03:31 PM
-1 Boost
Only an Alt-Left, communist-fascist-socialist (AKA Democrat) could see record unemployment, enhanced prosperity, and greater security from terrorism as a dumpster fire.

Face it Pelosi fucked the Democrats out of a win in November. She's your girl.


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/10/2020 8:04:02 PM
+3 Boost
And yet @MD ....

Your guy in the White House still sits at less than 50% approval where other Presidents have soared to 70-80% approvals with good, but still less robust economic and job creation numbers.

Trump's personal negatives far outweigh any positive things he might have done in the last 3 years. There are a lot of salt of the earth church going people in America. I hardly thing the current president, now having shown who he really is (not risen to the occasion or changed by the awesome responsibility of being President) is going to get their vote.

It will be up to the voters to sort it all out. But he does not enter November like any President should with those kinds of stellar numbers.




MDarringerMDarringer - 2/10/2020 8:11:58 PM
-1 Boost
Keep talking like Trump Derangement Syndrome psychopath you are.

Yet again, you're not an American citizen and as a foreigner you opinion of this country means NOTHING.



CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/10/2020 7:44:20 PM
+2 Boost
Truth vs Trump fiction.

The current US economy is doing great. But it is not doing better than the last 35 months of the Obama 2nd term. The best growth quarter then was 2.9%. The best for Trump was 2.9%. IE The same. And Obama did not throw gas on the economy in terms of a $1T tax cut nobody needed. Don't believe me, go look it up.




MDarringerMDarringer - 2/11/2020 8:02:33 AM
+1 Boost
You're so WRONG. Unemployment under Obama Bin Barack was far higher. You're going to shit your pants when Trump wins easily in November.


carloslassitercarloslassiter - 2/11/2020 7:37:11 AM
+1 Boost
A call from Trump would end this bullshit.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trump will probably grab a wrench and get over there and make the repairs himself.


MDarringerMDarringer - 2/11/2020 8:03:22 AM
0 Boost
And unlike the moron from Canada, you saw the absurdity of the bait.


Copyright 2026 AutoSpies.com, LLC