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Boundary entry · the AM General record owns the course
The pointer: Mishawaka's ground holds one great defense-adjacent fact, and it belongs to another record of this history: AM General's plant, where the United States Army's and Marine Corps' Humvees were built — every production Humvee, assembled in Mishawaka — under the military customer relation that has anchored the city's industry in the modern era. That relation is stated here once, because a military-presence record that omitted it would mislead: the uniforms do not stand in Mishawaka, but the vehicles the uniforms drive were made here in their tens of thousands. The plant's course, its contracts, its workforces and its product lines stand whole in the AM General record of this history; the companion claim, that the Humvee was designed in Mishawaka, fails its test and stands corrected in the Inventors record — the design work was done in Michigan in 1979–1983, and Mishawaka's earned claim is the manufacture. Nothing else on Mishawaka ground is a defense installation: no depot, no arsenal, no proving ground, no contractor test site stands in any record reached, and the city's wartime factory production — considerable, and claimed in the Wars and industry records — was the work of its civilian plants under contract, not of a military establishment seated here.
Sources:
- AM General record of this history — the plant, the Humvee production and the military customer relation whole.
- Inventors record of this history — the Humvee design claim tested: designed in Detroit and Livonia, Michigan, 1979–1983; Mishawaka's claim is the manufacture of every production Humvee.