TEN THOUSANDTH: The 10,000th Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle soon will be heading for the front lines after having rolled off the assembly line July 3. The MRAP still has to be ...

The LAUSD was recently in possession of grenade launchers, too, but has decided to give those back. The MRAP? That they’re keeping, along with a reported 60 M16 riffles.

What makes an MRAP so much different from a Humvee is the design of the undercarriage. The Rhodesian and South African armies had used early versions as far back as the 1970s.

In 2011, the Pentagon MRAP shop estimated that MRAPs saved up to a stunning 40,000 lives — 10,000 in Iraq and 30,000 Afghanistan. But there’s been a recent reappraisal.