“I talked to the General coming out here about the pace at which the vehicles are being armored. They have been brought from all over the world, wherever they’re not needed, to a place here where they are needed. I’m told that they are being — the Army is — I think it’s something like 400 a month are being done. And it’s essentially a matter of physics. It isn’t a matter of money.” (emphasis added)
A front-page Washington Post story today on an Army repair depot in Texas that has several hundred damaged Humvees sitting around waiting to be repaired:
An additional 224 damaged Humvees recently arrived at Red River from the 4th Infantry Division. Depot officials insist they can keep pace….
But for now, the real bottleneck may lie in Washington. Those 4th Infantry Humvees will sit until the Army has the money.
“We’d like to produce them all today so the soldiers have their equipment,” Lewis said. “But…the reality is, there isn’t the funding.” (emphasis added)