Army selling Humvees to the public for the first time

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Might be a good way to acquire Humvees for storm response/evacuation, brush fires, etc...

According to the Army Times, the Department of Defense will start auctioning off as many as 4,000 military-spec Humvees to the public as part of its surplus-reduction efforts. In previous years, the off-road behemoths would have been sent straight to the military scrapyard, but due to changes in policies in recent years and what the Defense Logistics Agency spokesperson Michelle McCaskill describes as “cooperation from other government offices," the used Humvees will be sold instead of scrapped for the first time

Article: https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/army-selling-humvees-to-the-public-for-the-first-time-%E2%80%94-but-there-s-a-catch-214533984.html

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Might be a good way to acquire Humvees for storm response/evacuation, brush fires, etc...

Article: https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/army-selling-humvees-to-the-public-for-the-first-time-%E2%80%94-but-there-s-a-catch-214533984.html

1033 program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_program) has been doing this for almost a decade. Where do you think they got the MRAPs in Ferguson, MO from?

Previously, government agencies could get almost any military surplus (generators, rifles, MRAPs, Boats, Copiers etc etc etc) for free but had to pay to remove lethal components (if not a firearm or alike) and ship the surplus to its final destination.

Now any John Q. Public can buy one, at least a HUMVEE that is...

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HMMWV's are fun. I own a real USGI one, 100% street legal and registered/insured, from the USMC/Manheim auctions in the 1990's. It is fully restored. They are a lot of maintenance if you don't know what your doing or some of their quirks like halfshalf bolts and EESS boxes.. Parts are available, but some parts are not cheap.

One thing to be wary of is that there are no titles or SF-97's given with these trucks in the GOV PLANET auction, that may present a problem sooner or later.

Edited December 16, 2014 by 38ff

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As military vehicles are not built with emission controls or the required safety equipment that civilian

vehicles must have, can you get a waver or does the vehicle have to be brought up to civilian vehicle standards before you can register it.

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It all depends on the state your registering it. NYS didn't require me to do anything other than pay my $ for the registration. Some states are a PITA, others don't seem to care. NY seems not to care, amazingly. Granted, I already had 100% valid titles or SF-97's. I make sure of that when I buy vehicles. When people have strange/bad/no paperwork, that's when DMV starts digging, and that usually doesn't go well.

Ususally, if there is a EPA National security exemption sticker on the engine, that is OK with the state. Only a handful of states worry about it, California being one of them with the more modern stuff.

Edited December 17, 2014 by 38ff

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People have been buying military equipment for a while, hell go on eBay.

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www.govliquidation.com and www.govplanet.com are just 2 ways civilians can buy ex military vehicles.