Discarded Iraq Humvees heading to Guard

Above: Inspected vehicles awaiting transportation out of Iraq by way of Kuwait.

More than 3,000 Humvees that were going unused in the Iraq war theater because they lack state-of-the-art armor are headed stateside for the equipment-strapped Army National Guard...

The excess vehicles will be sent back to the U.S., put into the Army’s reset program and, once considered mission-ready, used to fill Army shortages, Geren said.

Of the total, 3,096 will go to the Guard, with the first delivery of 774 arriving no later than June, according to the letter.

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