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Article: Buffalo, N.Y., Company Made Some All-Terrain Vehicles Used in Afghanistan.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2002
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Byline: Matt Glynn
Mar. 4--Somewhere in Afghanistan, U.S. Special Forces soldiers are riding around on all-terrain vehicles made by a Buffalo company.
Recreatives Industries isn't exactly sure how the military is using the 10 ATVs it supplied. Much of what the Special Forces units are doing in Operation Enduring Freedom is veiled in secrecy.
The soldiers are using the six-wheeled vehicles every day. They refer to the company's ATV as "the bus," since it can carry four people, unlike other ATVs that hold only one or two people. No complaints have filtered back to the makers of the vehicles. "The only feedback I've gotten so far is the vehicles ...