I was thinking of a couple of other things that I had not already mentioned in my intro.
I mean, how awesome are American military vehicles? Here are machines that were in some respects just intended to last long enough to get men and materials to the right place, on time, through anything, before those same vehicles got blown up. And here they are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years later, and they are still doing their thing.
They look good, they sound good (I love the whistle of the turbocharged motors), and they perform good.
We Americans were lucky to have a fantastic designer/engineer/factory resource. A shame that we are letting it slip from our fingers. May we always be able to produce our own military machinery in-house, and may it always be as good or better than these old MVs that we caretake.