Date:         Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:47:30 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Airstream Base Camp
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Recently, when I made inquiries as to why Casita mini travel trailers was
experiencing such rapid growth I was advised that most units of both Casita
and Scamp were being shipped out to the US Army at a variety of locations
worldwide for temporary quarters for both Civilian Workers and Military
Personnel.
http://www.casitatraveltrailers.com/home.html
Casita is located near Corsicana Texas and I drive by it often. (70 miles
from Dallas on Interstate 45 South)
They have about ten acres of land area and about 45,000 square feet of
manufacturing building.
In recent months I've seen several hundred completed units staged and ready
for shipment.
It is very apparent that they now have several hundred employees when before
in years past it looked like thirty people ran the whole operation.
http://www.scamptrailers.com/
All this means nothing right now but when the Middle East, Afghanistan and
Iraq situations settle down these trailers are going to be a cheap commodity
at Government Auctions and other companies liquidating their surplus assets.
It might just be that the  trailers never return to the US at all and are
destroyed or sold off as salvage where they currently reside.
So you say! So what Stan?
I just thought you might have a general interest in how your Tax Dollars are
being spent.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com