pjpiche1,
I understand why they do it. They do not deploy with their equipment. The military pays big bucks to have Pre Positioned Condition Code A stock at the deployment site. In the event of OIF 2003, we fell in on refurbished CCA tanks in Kuwait. Fresh from a warehouse and ready to go. They were immaculately maintained and ready to beat down the gates of Saddam's ****. The same with most of the other equipment over there. Unit's fall in on the good stuff and have no care what happens to the home station stuff. There are some occasions that you will draw used equipment such as when we deployed for OIF 3, Jan 05 to Jan 06. We received some vehicles that would probably classify as CC/F but everything worked for the most part and they moved under their own power so they were good to go. Thankfully, the military has some really tough standards of acceptance, otherwise, we'd all be left with some 40 year old rust piles rather than working trucks!!!!!