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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
I know, I was just picturing a former Warthog pilot in the office next door rolling in hot with his 30mm and an evil tanker grinning back, setting his 105mm to "HIGH RATE"....he tells me about all of the tanks he destroyed in Desert Storm and I remind him that the Air Force considers hitting the ground to be an accomplishment.
But you have to have the spirit, not to mention the courage, to make that kind of decision. And that's something that I see lacking in the DoD. Yup the Air Force could do without a couple of F-35s and does the Navy really need another Aegis Destroyer? Face it, the Army is the least "sexy" of all the branches...that's why we always get hind tit when it comes time to dish out money for the various programs. Its been known that we need decent ADA ever since the Sergeant York disaster (and that one was the fault of certain congressmen and their corporate buddys), still soldering on with the M-741 ehhh! OH WAIT! We get the Avenger...a hummer with a turret that breaks down moreoften than not with a four pack of stingers and a ma deuce... 
We need better body armor and helmets...and it takes retired officers and NCOs to badger Congress and DoD into doing something...I still chuckle remembering when they started sending helmets to GIs in Iraq....DEAR GAWD!!!! DON'T CNN OR FOX FIND OUT!!!!!
We had a good platform with the M-8 MGS...till it was killed off so that the navy could but a couple of Burke-class destroyers....considering that the US Navy is now capable of taking on all the next ten largest navies at the same time? Guess we had to worry about ole number eleven!
Don't know what the requirement for an ACR is nowdays (is there even an ACR left?) But the 2ACR was always loaded with enough supplies for 72-hours of independent operations...when we had our truck company. Beyond that, then the trucks start to outnumber the tanks/CFVs, just how much operating time is needed?
WHAT!!!!!! Our current President ordering the Pentagon to just drop 60 years of bad habits!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
You know very few units ever had their 'Full Load Out' even when they could claim this it was general short. Unless you were in ACR in Germany or in Korea that is.
Yeah one thing that I always wonder when I was in was about the body armor. I had play twilight 2000 before going in, and the armor I ever seen while in was the helmet. So did they replace the 'Fritz' helmet with improve version? Yeah I always wonder where the body armor was.
What made me shake my head during Operation Desert Storm/Shield was that video of troops in the US 1st Mechanized Division that had been deployed late to the Middle East. They were wearing vest that had regular green camo cover. Even many would still be in the old woodland uniforms. Which proves they never really had enough of the Desert cammys on hand for large scale operations. Granted at the time who would of thought of having the units from the III Corps and Germany being sent to Middle East or for that matter anywhere but Germany. It one of the things especially the Army, where they have mind set that only certain units would ever be sent to this place or that place. When the last 20 years have shown once the units that are suppose to head there are already committed, you should have plans and option to move other units as needed.