"Oshkosh Corporation, formerly Oshkosh Truck, is an American industrial company that designs and builds specialty trucks,
military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus, and access equipment.
The corporation also owns Pierce Manufacturing, a fire apparatus manufacturer in Appleton, Wisconsin, and JLG Industries,
a manufacturer of lift equipment, including aerial lifts, boom lifts, scissor lifts, telehandlers and low-level access lifts."
"Founded in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company, the company was created to build a severe-duty four-wheel-drive truck. After the first prototype was built, the company began to develop rapidly.
This first four-wheel-drive truck, known today as "Old Betsy"
"On August 25, 2015, Oshkosh was awarded the U.S. military's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract.
The initial JLTV award is valued at $6.75 billion for up to 16,901 vehicles.
The procurement objective for JLTV stands at 49,099 Army and 9,091 Marines, with the Navy and Air Force also having smaller requirements.
The estimated program cost is $47.6 billion.
JLTV will partially replace the AM General Humvee."
"February 2021, Oshkosh Defense was awarded the U.S. Postal Service's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) mail truck contract for between 50,000 and 165,000 units over ten years, with production start targeted for 2023.
The fleet will include low-emissions internal combustion engine vehicles as well as battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and could be worth over $6 billion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_Corporation
"Genocide the Next Day, or Else"
Toddler overalls be damned.
Coming to the USAA.
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"OshKosh B'gosh
is an American children's apparel company.
founded in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
It is a subsidiary of Carter's.".
My mistake, gosh.
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Oshkosh
(/ˈɒʃkɒʃ/ ⓘ) is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, .
and its county seat. It is located on the western shore of Lake Winnebago
and had a population of 66,816 as of the 2020 census,
making it the ninth-most populous city in Wisconsin."
Call it 67k.
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Oshkosh was named for Menominee Chief Oshkosh,
whose name meant "claw "(cf. Ojibwe
oshkanzh,
"the claw").
'At one time, Oshkosh was known as the
"Sawdust Capital of the World"
due to the number of lumber mills in the city, 11 by 1860."
"Iceblock heaven"
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