But there is "us" and "them". The reserve force has only been used to supplement the regular army in either peace keeping or war for the last what? 60 years? So why buy a truck for them that has wartime features that will never be used. In aide to the civil power situations, where the reserve units do occasionally get called out, their milcot vehicles will fit the bill.
In this day and age it would be hard to justify the expense of 800 extra full SMP vehicles which in all likelihood would never leave the geographical areas they were initially issued to.
Note the same principle also applied to the G-wagons, where milcots were supplied in lieu of a 1/4 ton vehicle. There were some exceptions like the recce militia who would have a hard time doing recce in crew cab silverados. In the case of that class of vehicle, the G wagons were around $160,000 each, and the Silverados were likely closer to $35K.
If there was ever a vehicle that deserved to be crushed beyond recognition, it would be the LSVW. Plagued by problems from the day they were issued, they will always represent the results of political interference in what should have been a technical selection process.
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