Freedom means owning what you buy, whether it’s a Jeep Wrangler for your family or a rugged Jeep AEV J8 Milspec built for our troops. But there’s a problem.

In today’s landscape, automakers are locking you out of fixing your own vehicles. They hoard the tools, software and know-how needed for repairs, in effort to establish a monopoly over auto repair.

That’s not just un-American — it’s a threat to our liberty and security.

Take this story from an active-duty logistics officer, knee-deep in South Korean mud, stunned to hear her Marine mechanic couldn’t fix a broken generator.

Why? “Because of the warranty, ma’am.”

A civilian corporate policy paralyzing our military? That’s a SNAFU we cannot tolerate. Imagine MASH’s Radar O’Reilly telling Colonel Potter his........

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