Check this ^%$^ out!

nothing???

are you thinking its legit or spurious

I'm thinking.....I really don't know what to think...is this the norm for some fed contracts when supplying a fed contract overseas?

Does not Xerox have most of that DND business. They were recently awarded a big USA contract. Does Xerox train USA Soldiers to be front line copier techs? I suspect they have a whole new meaning to Break/Fix. Blown Up! Replace it! Paper jam! Replace it. Xerox must have stacks of copiers in Iraq/ Afghanistan awaiting delivery.

Interesting reply to the same question from www.Copytechnet.com

Copier service depends on who you are and where you are. In Afghanistan a while ago, a soldier told me of a tech junk yard. Since there where no techs there when they arrived they threw away everything that broke and just bought new stuff. He said the huge tech junk pile had 3 bulldozers pushing it around. _ side note_ in one of those Afghan junk yards after they got there, they found 2 old WWI tanks in excellent condition that were sent to the Patton museum to be restored_
In other places, I assume Iraq, where they are supposed to have techs in the local populace, they would tell me that when they would call for a printer repair, you might get a guy show up in a suit or you might get a guy showing up in robes with his head wrapped, but either way, he wanted his $300 usd up front and then he would do little more than blow it out with air. I have had entire copiers shipped back for repair and then shipped back over there. Some units will make do if it is near the end of tour and bring back the broke stuff to be replace or repaired. I can say that the sand in Afghanistan smells a certain way. Some minor repair work is done by I.T. people.
By knowing your customer, you can hustle a little business. I just had a helicopter company buy 2 refurb HP 4700 printers from me and pay whatever it take to fix 2 of them. Why not just buy new? Because they already bought $10,000 worth of cartridges for them.
I could tell many a tale of waste of money, but I will not. Lets just say the military budget could stand to be cut. They would not actually have to cut back on anything, just make better decisions.