HEMTT A4
A recent paper prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) helped highlight several critical aspects of the U.S. Army's tactical wheeled vehicle fleet. Titled "Replacing and Repairing Equipment Used in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Army's Reset Program," the September 2007 paper stated: "With so many trucks being left in the theater, returning units must rely on equipment supplied from excess stocks or left behind by deploying units. In some cases, as with HMMWVs [Humvees], FMTVs [family of medium tactical vehicles] and heavy expanded-mobilily tactical trucks [HEMTTs], there is no surplus-indeed, the Army does not have enough of those types of trucks to equip all of its …