The wrong direction

Money spent way off course, there are better ways to conduct what the Army big heads were looking to do.
This is the wrong way in my opinion. Perhaps $300 thousand "per vehicle" could have gone better towards improved armor...

The military spent billions to hear a pin drop in Baghdad, but was it listening to soldiers’ needs? ... The military devised it the mid-1990s to replace older, “obsolete” equipment. Several years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, Prophet went to war.

That could have been hundreds of millions gone towards fixing the moble means, or lighter better body armor even.

Even though Prophet’s backers call it a success, the system — like other costly, state-of-the-art military programs — was designed with another war in mind.

So why do the big heads keep testing stuff here, it obviously is not the right place, or time for it. Obviously they don't care. The project/s are more important.

The Defense Department has asked Congress for more than half a trillion dollars in spending next year. The emphasis remains on high technology.

Still my opinion, it is just a waste of money. Disabled vets could use it more. Not to mention, as above, it could go towards improving armor for both vehicles and soldiers.

Meanwhile, the amount allocated to basic pay for enlisted personnel would actually decline...

Go figure....a shame, or should I say sham.



Here is a link to the source of three day old info;
2007 06 20

Right on the money again, ADVISOR, with a timely expose' of gaping chasms in the system, truly another egregious disconnect with the reality of the situation on the ground.

With a funding crunch for basic operations looming on the immediate political horizon, it does bring a head shake and ...Huh? from me to see R&D projects still taking precedence over the basic needs of soldiers in the field.

There is a theme to this, a common denominator that points to an indication of what I consider skewed priorities on the part of those responsible for the planning and execution of our national military effort.

Improved veterans health care and body armour wouldn't contribute to the corporate socialism gravy train so US troops will go without. Unless there is fundamental shrift in American politics the corporate gravy train will always be put before US troops and Americans in general.

Improved veterans health care and body armour wouldn't contribute to the corporate socialism gravy train so US troops will go without. Unless there is fundamental shrift in American politics the corporate gravy train will always be put before US troops and Americans in general.

And that, not terrorism, is the greatest threat to our nation.

People will either wake up and deal with this situation or, like sleeping horses in a burning barn, they will find out far too late the virtue of paying attention to current events.

Trillions of dollars have been misspent or outright stolen, meanwhile citizens suffer, criminals prosper, the rich get richer, and the poor bleed for their supposed freedom - which is for the most part a clever, drug-induced illusion predicated on sensory manipulation. (Now the relevance of my micro-rant might be more clear)

Oh, and thanks for posting that write-up Advisor.

[edit on 25-6-2007 by WyrdeOne]

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
Oh, and thanks for posting that write-up Advisor.

No problem.

Speaking of criminals prospering, I hear you on that one. Since when did illegals and foreign criminals have legal rights. They should be guilty as a fox in the hen house. They knew what they were doing.

Even if they don't know specifics of the laws here. Ignorance of the law, is no excuse.

If an American would have committted a crime in Mexico for example. In retrospect of the drug smuggler incident not so long ago. They would have been stuck in a Tijuana prison or other place, for God knows how long.