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Despite the efforts, the general who chaired the Joint Chiefs until September 2005 says buying MRAPs “was not on the radar screen when I was chairman.” Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, now retired, says top military officials dealt with a number of vehicle issues, including armoring Humvees. MRAPs, however, were “not one of them.” Something related to MRAPs “might have crossed my desk,” Myers says, “but I don’t recall it.”