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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: In a pit kicking DDP's ass.
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| Actually a continuation of the "Our troops need more armor on their HUMVEEs" debacle. Quote:
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Once again, we have the media and popular opinion telling Soldiers and Marines what their "best protection" is and then forcing more expensive, ill suited equipment down on top of them. These things are 3 times the cost of an uparmored Humvee and not nearly as well suited to the task at hand. Kudos to Commandant Conway for nipping this particular instance in the bud as soon as he could, and weathering the storm of "you're undermining the protection of our troops" that's sure to come.
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| Im with you, Mule....but the practice of outfitting the military with poor, misfitting and substandard weaponry and equipment due to politics and other behind the scenes BS goes back to 1776.
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| When you sign up, there's no promises made they're going to make you bulletproof. One of the first things you learn when you become an NCO in a combat unit is that mission accomplishment > troop welfare. This particular problem, I think we're addressing this properly, which is mostly through a shift in tactics. I understand the military procurement process is an albatross, but you don't make it work better by weighing it down even farther.
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