DRMO Resources

[afgeo4]

Towable generators.
Towable high intensity lights.
Medium and Large tents.
Crew buses (blue box vans with windows used to drive aircrews to their crotch rockets) would be perfect for commo vehicles and are 100% street legal.
Maintenance trucks (often 4x4, they are perfect for SAR).
Computers, desk and laptop (by the way, who said that NHQ supplied all units with internet access? our laptops don't come with wireless.)
HVAC units.
Uniforms, uniforms, uniforms!

BTW... airmen are buying up ACU field gear because the approved combat accessories for ABU are ACUPAT. There will not be any accessories made in ABU tiger stripe. At least it's not planned yet.

[mikeylikey]

BTW... airmen are buying up ACU field gear because the approved combat accessories for ABU are ACUPAT. There will not be any accessories made in ABU tiger stripe. At least it's not planned yet.

The AF would have saved some $$ if they would have just accepted the Army's offer and used the ACU's. 

[SarDragon]

To repeat part of an earlier post:

Now, for all the rest of the stuff at DRMO, most of it is there for a reason - it has passed its useful life. That make it olde, out-of-date, costly to maintain, and generally more trouble than it's worth. Even "the good stuff" frequently requires repair or modification to be useful for CAP use.

It's been four or five years since my last trip to a DRMO, but things hadn't changed between 1973 and 2003. The stuff there is CRAP! I see folks bemoan financial ills at the unit level, and then see these pie-in-the-sky ideas for converting junk into wonderful CAP assets.

I was in a unit that acquired two vehicles from DRMO, and they ended up being more trouble than they were worth. The Wing 37 passenger bus spent more time in the shop than on the road. Most of the uniforms I have seen from there were unusable.

As noted above, CAP is way down the pecking order for getting equipment from DRMO. Many others agencies get to cherry-pick the really good stuff long before CAP has a chance to even look at it.

[JC004]

BTW... airmen are buying up ACU field gear because the approved combat accessories for ABU are ACUPAT. There will not be any accessories made in ABU tiger stripe. At least it's not planned yet.

The AF would have saved some $$ if they would have just accepted the Army's offer and used the ACU's. 

What?  and looked like this?   

[afgeo4]

BTW... airmen are buying up ACU field gear because the approved combat accessories for ABU are ACUPAT. There will not be any accessories made in ABU tiger stripe. At least it's not planned yet.

The AF would have saved some $$ if they would have just accepted the Army's offer and used the ACU's. 

The Army is not researching switching to a whole other camo pattern for 2010/2012. The print is similar to the current Australian print, with blotches and splatters of color called MULTICAM.