Yeah, they also did the LAV-25 thing in the early-1990s. Fiddle-fu**cked around with the idea, designed some half-assed tactics for it's use, airdropped it a few times, and generally fooled around with the idea until it died an unnatural death due to overstupidification. Then got rid of them, to the chagrin of 3-73, at the time the only armor unit in the Army with no actual armored vehicles.
Us infantrymen would have loved to see some armored backup, preferably something that had enough gun to take a stubborn blockhouse and stop a tank or two for us.
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