Pick up for a frontline use

[KrisZ]

I have a transportation vehicle provided by the military. What are you on about?

Are you forgetting this earlier post where you clearly state this is for military use and you’re paying out of your own pocket because Ukraine is poor?
Heck, the thread title says frontline use.
So what are you on about?

My own. My country is not terribly rich and it has taken a significant battering. War is bottomless. Nothing’s ever in sufficient quantities.

We, soldiers buy a lot on our own. Not ammunition or armored vehicles of course, but about 20-30% of our pay goes towards war needs. It’s a rather people’s war

There are barely any good cheap old pick ups left in Europe. We have scooped them all up.

At this point I have an AFU issued diesel 2003 Ford Ranger. I want something nicer, considering I’m walking under God daily and, the fact that live goes on just 20+ km away from the frontline. I’ll use this vehicle as personal too.

When at zero point it’s MRAPs and other APC’s that I use. But 3-6km it’s mostly drones that are of a concern and a pick up truck with radio jammers suffices.

 

[The Artillerist]

Are you forgetting this earlier post where you clearly state this is for military use and you’re paying out of your own pocket because Ukraine is poor?
Heck, the thread title says frontline use.
So what are you on about?

In my unit you’d be peeling potatoes

 

[KrisZ]

Please.

The whole of Russian Federation, with an immeasurable armament and ammunition inheritance from USSR, has been relying on North Korea to sustain its operation.

So the “record amounts of money” — with which you can’t load a canon by the way, so right there you should be able to figure out that most aid doesn’t come in the form of money, but equipment — having been either swallowed by the black hole OR they have freed Russian military from its equipment and ammunition.

Thanks for showing us what you really think about our aid. Which is, and always has been “give us more and more”


Here is one of the aid packages breakdown. It definitely includes funds.

Q1: What is included in the package?

A1: The $61 billion of the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024 falls into six categories.

Military equipment for Ukraine ($25.7 billion) comprises the largest part of the funding and does three things. First, it replaces equipment that has been or will be sent to Ukraine through presidential drawdown authority (PDA) ($13.4 billion). This authority allows the president to take weapons and munitions from U.S. stockpiles and send them to Ukraine. Although there is no statutory requirement to replace the equipment, Congress has provided funding to do so. If it had not, the resulting shortfalls would have badly hurt U.S. readiness.

Second, it provides Ukraine with funding through the State Department’s Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program ($1.6 billion). This program provides grants and loans for allies and partners such as Ukraine to purchase weapons and munitions in the United States.

The third and final element is enhancing the defense industrial base to increase production capabilities and develop more advanced weapons and munitions ($7.0 billion)

 

[KrisZ]

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In my unit you’d be peeling potatoes

Yeah sure, my point is you likely don’t have a unit, you’re not active on the front line and you’re conning people.

Either that, or you’re some sort of “support” personnel or something and hence you’re looking for a “nicer” vehicle.

Just don’t rush too quickly to post some pictures of your “heroics” to prove me wrong.

 

[DuckRyder]

Yeah sure, my point is you likely don’t have a unit, you’re not active on the front line and you’re conning people.

Either that, or you’re some sort of “support” personnel or something and hence you’re looking for a “nicer” vehicle.

Just don’t rush too quickly to post some pictures of your “heroics” to prove me wrong.

quoted for posterity.

 

[eljefino]

An army marches on its stomach. Don't disrespect the quartermasters.

 

[dnewton3]

Enough of the bickering and political side topics.
Locked.