U.S. Department of Defense

Vice Chairman Visits Charleston, S.C.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks inside a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle outside the SPAWAR Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008. Cartwright visited several production facilities to see firsthand how MRAP vehicles are made and shipped to troops in Iraq.

Pete Ward, MRAP project engineer for SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, explains MRAP production to Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outside the Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks over Humvees outside the SPAWAR Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, walks through an MRAP facility in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

Pete Ward, MRAP project engineer for SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, gives Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a tour of the company's MRAP production facility in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

Pete Ward, MRAP project engineer for SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, briefs Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on MRAP production during a tour of the company's production facility in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

James Ward, technical director of SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, gives Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a tour of the MRAP facility in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, climbs into a Cheetah MRAP at Force Protection Industries Inc., in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008. Cartwright visited several production facilities to see firsthand how MRAP vehicles are made and shipped to troops in Iraq.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, drives a Cheetah MRAP down the road at Force Protection Industries Inc., in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks inside a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle outside the SPAWAR Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008. Cartwright visited several production facilities to see firsthand how MRAP vehicles are made and shipped to troops in Iraq.
Defense Dept. photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump