JCB HMEEs deploy to Afghanistan

Apr 1, 2009

JCB Construction Equipment has procured a $230 million contract with the United States Army to build approximately 800 High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEEs). The first nine HMEEs produced were transported by United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy’s from South Carolina to Bagram, Afghanistan, where they have been deployed with the Army.

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