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Originally Posted by natehale1971
I just can't decide if ALL those surplus M113's would be more valuable like that, or being used for scrap metal. Because after the nuclear exchanges i can see those M113's being federalized and brought back into the use by the military... because a lightly armored APC is better than none.
So I'm asking everyone here what they think. Would the M113 be better used by the US Army passing them on to Police, State Guards and the Territorial Guard? OR just sending them to be Scrapped?
Sending them to be Scrapped would result in money going back to the US Army... i just don't know how much.
So what do you think?
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In my "Orlando Joint Military Command" thing I wrote up last year (!) I've got the JMC with five APCs (an ex-Israeli MICV, an LAV-100, an LAV150 and two M113A2s (ex NASA)) and that gives them incredible tactical flexibility against NA forces from Southwest FL as well as Seminole insurgents (that and most of Central Florida's remaining population has "snuggled up" around downtown Orlando but there are still communities that need the cavalry periodically).
I think local MilGov (and probably civgov) Kampfgruppes would
absolutely buy/beg/borrow/steal any armor they could get their hands on, with the Mexicans pushing through to Nevada in the Southwest, Division Cuba running around in central TX and marauders
everywhere, I can't imagine them not using every available armor asset they have. Including functional museum pieces owned by collectors, to wit:
"Wellsir, that's a fine lookin' M48 you got there. Served on one in Vietnam with the 24th. You too? Small world, ain't it? Lissen, we got an offer to make you and your family. How'd you like three squares a day, a bunch of grease monkeys to help you keep that and that halftrack running, and a bandit-free perimeter to live in?" Then suddenly Joe the slightly odd guy who owns his own tank is now Joe the military contractor for MilGov's 11th Provisional Armored Cavalry Company in Valdosta, GA...