Securing America: End of the MRAPs

It’s the end of the line for a military life-saver.  The nearly 13,000 MRAPs in use in Afghanistan are the last that will be made.

FOX News Radio’s Kirstin McNary reports in our ongoing series on national security:

Securing America.

MRAPs, or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, will no longer be made.  They’re credited with saving thousands of American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a Pentagon ceremony to mark the change, Vice President Joe Biden thanked everyone who helped get the armored vehicles into the field.

(Vice President Biden) “One truly sacred obligation, and that’s to equip and protect those who we send to war and care for those who we bring home from war.”

The MRAP was rushed into production to provide better defense against roadside bombs than a heavily-armored Humvee.

Kirstin McNary, FOX News Radio.