One thing we are currently working with several partners on is the transportation and coordination of MRAPs - mine resistant vehicles into Afghanistan for our NATO partners such as Georgia, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan.

Tom Vanden Brook, an excellent journalist who I met at the Army Worldwide Public Affairs conference last year, has an article out today about this on USA Today.  He has been following the production, use, and shipment of MRAP's since their inception into DOD pipelines in 2007.

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Coalition forces in Afghanistan, in urgent need of protection from roadside bombs, have sought hundreds of the U.S.-produced armored trucks known as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, according to Pentagon officials and documents.

So far, the Pentagon has lent or sold 581 new and used MRAPs to allies such as Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Jordan and Georgia. Other countries, including the United Kingdom, are buying theirs directly from U.S. manufacturers.

In February, Defense Secretary Robert Gates pledged U.S. help to NATO allies in combating improvised explosive devices. The aid is vital as more U.S. and allied troops pour into the country to quell the increasingly violent Taliban insurgency. There are about 84,000 U.S. troops there now and 40,000 from allied countries. There will be about 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan by the end of the summer.

Force Protection builds Cougar MRAPs that have been used by Marines for years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Canada, France, Italy and Hungary are now customers for the vehicle built by the company in South Carolina. The United Kingdom has orders for 500 Cougars, said Tommy Pruitt, a spokesman for the company.

Photo taken during my trip to Afghanistan -March 2010.  The Germans used armored Mercedes as troop carriers as pictured here.  The new MRAP's, M-ATV's would be another option as well. 

Me next to the current version of MRAP used for Afghanistan, M-ATV, MRAP all-terrain vehicle.  This picture was taken in March 2010 at the airfield in Masar-e-Shariff, northern Afghanistan.