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2007-05-25 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by gorb 2007-05-25 01:22|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 It doesn't matter what the troops need. What matters is whose friend's company is making the gear. It's some weird company we've never heard of, making lifesaving equipment? That doesn't help me at all! Denied...now why don't the troops in the field ever request the shoddy equipment that one of my Dartmouth buddies makes? I tell you, procurement is a thankless job...

Posted by gromky 2007-05-25 04:25|| 2007-05-25 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like not much has changed since 1776.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-25 07:11|| 2007-05-25 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 "Resistance costs time," it adds. "Unnecessary delays cause U.S. friendly and innocent Iraqi deaths and injuries."

Hear that, Harry? Nancy knew, how about you?

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-25 07:20|| 2007-05-25 07:20|| Front Page Top

Sure, hurry up and wait is SOP, But filter out the extra AP spin.

Newer Vehicles always have industrial/manufacture lag times..

The Pentagon plans to phase out its armored Humvees in Iraq and Afghanistan and send in vehicles that better withstand roadside bomb blasts, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday (May 10, 2007).

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) trucks, destined to augment and later replace up-armored HMMWVs currently operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new vehicles provides much improved protection , specifically against Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which cause 70% of all U.S. casualties in Iraq.

plz vet and add to this..

Posted by RD">RD 2007-05-25 08:44|| 2007-05-25 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 btw, some units already have numbers of these "newer" vehicles.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-05-25 08:48|| 2007-05-25 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Any chance I can get one? I need it to attend the next Al Gore speech

(scroll down and you can see what the Goracle's groupies are driving and it isn't hybrids...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-05-25 08:53|| 2007-05-25 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 "risk-averse" approach by acquisition officials.

One word: 'Osprey'.

Posted by Pappy 2007-05-25 09:22|| 2007-05-25 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I know LE Systems and their product. It rocks and would save both US and innocent Iraqi lives. The safety folks are the ones holding this up based on zero data. It should be fielded and pronto.

Posted by remoteman 2007-05-25 18:08|| 2007-05-25 18:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Keep in mind that this is the very same AP who would breathlessly report when gear that was 'rushed into service' didn't work, that it would be another f*ckup, in a long series of f*ckups, in a total f*uckup called Iraq.

Because it's all about the concern.

Posted by Pappy 2007-05-25 22:17|| 2007-05-25 22:17|| Front Page Top

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