Preserving Army Fleets

[PrairieFella]

Noah Gairn has mentioned a couple times that there may be some major fleet divestments coming - he's talking LUVW (no surprise), MSVS Milcot and surprisingly, TAPV. All three at once would absolutely kneecap 2 Div, representing most of their vehicles.

 

[MJP]

Generally starting divestment paperwork doesn't mean a fleet is going away anytime soon. It is more an administrative process than a signal of anything. Less TAPV most of those fleets are at the end of their lives.

Having proper authority to manage the end of life processes is just good institutional practices. It takes years post approval to complete divestment especially when you align it with fleet replacements.

 

[dapaterson]

Generally starting divestment paperwork doesn't mean a fleet is going away anytime soon. It is more an administrative process than a signal of anything. Less TAPV most of those fleets are at the end of their lives.

LSVW ad MSVS MilCOT are past the end of their lives.

 

[MJP]

LSVW ad MSVS MilCOT are past the end of their lives.

Yes most of the B fleet is way past service life.

LSVW already has a signed VCDS declaration of surplus. It changes little other than ADM(Mat) can do the disposal plan. We are still going to use the fleet until it die dies.

 

[PrairieFella]

Generally starting divestment paperwork doesn't mean a fleet is going away anytime soon. It is more an administrative process than a signal of anything. Less TAPV most of those fleets are at the end of their lives.

Having proper authority to manage the end of life processes is just good institutional practices. It takes years post approval to complete divestment especially when you align it with fleet replacements.

I hear you but the reporting seems like its more imminent than it is an exercise in good fleet management. Much of the MSVS Milcot fleet is down due to tyre issues. Hopefully they get them fixed.

LSVW ad MSVS MilCOT are past the end of their lives.

Good riddance to the LS but man the MSVS would hurt. Next to no MSVS SMP were allocated to the ARes and no LVM cargos were either from what Ive seen. We need another decade out of the MSVS yet. Tough to take care of domops when there are no cargo vehicles. Im hoping its a bit of hyperbole on Noah's part.

 

[MJP]

I get what you are saying but unless we do a deliberate parking of fleets à la 2014 starting the divestment process is just that.

We will see there are two key CA conferences sitting this week/next where lots of these decisions get hashed out.

 

[PrairieFella]

I get what you are saying but unless we do a deliberate parking of fleets à la 2014 starting the divestment process is just that.

We will see there are two key CA conferences sitting this week/next where lots of these decisions get hashed out.

Thats my fear. Agree on the wait and see.