AUSA Winter: Army watercraft due for replacement
The main programme causing a headache for the PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support (CS&CSS) is new watercraft for the US Army.
Speaking at a press roundtable at the AUSA Winter 2014 exhibition in Huntsville, Alabama, Jeff Fahey, PEO CS&CSS said: ‘The one part of the portfolio that is screaming for help is watercraft.’
The other portfolios are all ‘in good shape’ because they were ‘very much engaged in war’, he added, with tactical wheeled vehicles as a good example.
‘Watercraft from an army perspective, we have not really utilised that a lot, so if you look at a
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