if we had extra vehicles in charleston or oshkosh, okay. better an mrap without an soldier than a soldier without a mrap, first of all. second, we could use the excess vehicles for training so that every soldier and this is now the case in afghanistan, the troops that are arriving have their driver's license on the mrap. they don't have to be brought out from the field, taught to drive the vehicle, and then sent back out in the field with the vehicle. they arrive ready to go. they fall in on the vehicle. it's a familiar piece of equipment to them. so i thought we ought to buy them for the training ranges. out at mtc at fort irvin, there are mrap atvs. out in 29 palms for the marines, there are mrap. they are there so the soldiers can learn how to use them. so i bought -- i wanted to buy more than that we thought we could field. and we did. i also had in the back of my mind, i bet you we'll figure out a way to increase that number from 500 to a larger numbers. i think when the troops get them, they will lake them. when the commanders see the

means flying from charleston, where the government furnished equipment, the radios and so forth are installed in the vehicles, as they are delivered from oshkosh, flown to kandahar or bagram. they're to be married up with a unit and put out in the field. we are in the interest of fielding them more quickly and being able to use the air bridge for other freeup capacity on the air bridge for other urgent needs this spring and summer, we're beginning to put mraps on ships now. now that we've shipped a whole lot of them into afghanistan, while those are being absorbed and digested, we have a little time, we're putting matvs on sea lift, taking them into theater on sea lift, transferring them there to airlift, because the legs are shorter then, and you can pop them in more quickly. and eventually, to -- may be able to use ground communication, ground transportation the entire way for mraps, so you have to, in the case of logistics for afghanistan, look at every piece of the pipe, all the way through -- up the -- in the case of ground transportation, up the two ground lines of communication, to -- from karachi, over the northern distribution network, a couple of branches