INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Army Staff Sgt. Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his Humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006. Davis lost a leg and broke his back and both arms and can no longer walk or work. He'll never know whether he would have been less severely injured if he'd been in a different vehicle.
But his experience, and those of thousands of other Americans wounded in bomb-shredded Humvees in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years, foretold what now appears to be the official demise of the hulking all-terrain vehicles.
The Army provided no new money for the Humvee in the service's recent budget proposal. Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, an Army spokesman, says the 2,620 vehicles ordered from Mishawaka, Ind.-based AM General will be the last as the Army moves on to newer designs.
AM General, the sole manufacturer of the Humvee, says it is talking with the Army and hopes to maintain vehicle production into 2011.
AM General also makes the Humvee's civilian counterpart, the H2 Hummer, as a contract assembler for General Motors. GM plans to sell the brand to a Chinese company.
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