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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DRTDEVL, post: 12063211, member: 106279&quot;]Yup.&nbsp; Even Uncle Sam got in on the savings.&nbsp; The M915A4 trucks were actually FLD gliders that were shipped to Ft McCoy, WI for final assembly.&nbsp; The M915A0 and A1 trucks that were being decommissioned were shipped up to have their engines (NTC400 Big Cam II) and rear ends (Rockwell) pulled for remanufacturing, and then they were mated together in the new trucks with modern Allison transmissions via TPS and mounts.&nbsp; National Guard and Reserve Soldiers were utilized to assemble the trucks as a part of their Annual Training and rotated through the assembly line for several years while the trucks were being fielded.&nbsp; The cost of one of these gliders, complete, was about $97,000.&nbsp; A comparable FLD day cab, built brand-new with a 60-series (as seen in the M915A3), would have been over $125,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>The older Allison automatic (A1) and CAT 7155 semi-automatic pneumatic (A0) transmissions were sold off at DRMO auctions, and the 70&#039;s bodies scrapped.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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