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Originally Posted by Greenhat
What armor should a truck have? It's a truck, not a tank.
Btw, in 1944, 2 and 1/2 years after the US entered the war, 4 years after the beginning of mobilization.... the US Army had significant shortages in airlift capacity and gliders, causing significant issues with the Invasion of Normandy, Market Garden and Dragoon. Guess the Secretary of War must have really been f***ing up then, huh?
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Trucks? They should have ballistic windows (they dont) and on transports they should have the crew compartment doots with some form of protection. The majority of our losses are coming from IED/VBIED used against National Guard troops in a logistical capacity and as soon as I find it I will post the list of MOS's, Grunts are not leading the way in the last report I saw.
As for armor on vehicles. We knew it before then but it was shown to us again in Somalia. Our light skinned vehicles need to be able to survive the threat of RPG's or t least give the crews a fighting chance. We had all those years to R&D a vehicle with improved survivability against small arms and RPG's.
I also did not say that OIF/OEF is the sole reason for my disdain. While the SECDEF was left an Army of the kinder Gentler kind and did not have much time to get it back up to speed before they were sent in to action. He is know taking it down a few more notches and when the next SECDEF takes office, well it won't be pretty. I was always told you should leave things in the same if not better shape then when you got/found them. This will not be the case IMHO.
I just do not think he is doing the best job he can and that pisses me off. Maybe it is time to set age limits on the upper end. If in the civilian world they can retire you at 67 then maybe it is time to set the same limits on the people who made that law???
Disclaimer: The views and opinions of the author are influenced by lack of sleep and daily use of pain meds. They give him a unique insight that no one else seems to understand, of course neither does he half the time.