Oshkosh Receives Delivery Orders for US Marine Corps Medium Fleet

• Orders are Valued at $31.5 Million

(Oshkosh, Wis., January 8, 2010) -- Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) today announced that its Defense division has received two delivery orders valued at $31.5 million from Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) to install armor kits on 300 vehicles and manufacture more than 90 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacements (MTVR) for the U.S. Marine Corps.

Oshkosh Defense will supply the Marine Corps with primarily the cargo variant of the vehicle as well as a few tractors, wreckers and dump variants of the MTVR. Production at the company's Oshkosh, Wis. facilities will be completed by September 2010. Installation of the MTVR armor kits will be finished at two of the company's regional service centers in Jacksonville, N.C., and Oceanside, Calif.

The Oshkosh MTVR is an all-terrain, multipurpose logistics vehicle used by the Marines and Navy Seabees. The MTVR uses the Oshkosh(r) TAK-4(r) independent suspension system, which has undergone more than 500,000 miles of government testing to achieve superior off-road mobility. Featuring an off-road 7.1-ton payload capacity and an on-road 15-ton payload capacity, the MTVR comes in several variants for the transportation of troops, materials or equipment. Oshkosh has supplied the Marines and Seabees with more than 10,000 MTVRs, which have been successfully operating in off-road missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world.

Oshkosh has produced more than 70,000 military-class vehicles at its facilities. Oshkosh has the available capacity, highly skilled workforce and proven manufacturing capability to deliver this medium truck order and vehicles for other Defense programs, including the MRAP All Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) and the U.S. Army's Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV), as well as the capability to meet any surges in production if needed.

Source : Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK)