Postelection 2000 Armitage Now Dep. Sec'y of State Intel.
Akha roads are really bad.
If someone calls you to an Akha village and your truck isn't having trouble getting up the road, you know you don't have the right road. On the other hand if the road looks totally destroyed, like the one above, you know you're going the right way. When you have 300 villages to go to during the monsoons on roads like this, one obviously needs some axle clearance. The humvee axle design is one of the few vehicles suitable, short of building our own. Now we originally approached AM General some two years ago about buying a humvee, 'cause they are a lot cheaper as military models, than the civilian Hummer which has a lot of plastic stuff on it we didn't want and doesn't like deep water.