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this is unbelievable but of course it isn't too. all along we knew the equipment given our men and women was falling apart, shoddy, old or just hunks o' junk.
we send them off to be killed or maimed and we give them a nerf ball to defend themselves
U.S. Army Battling To Save Equipment
Gear Piles Up at Depots, Awaiting Repair
(perhaps da liebs has a perspective on THIS he's not sharing with the rest of the world)
By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 5, 2006; Page A01
ANNISTON, Ala. -- Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot -- the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt.
The Army and Marine Corps have sunk more than 40 percent of their ground combat equipment into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to government data. An estimated $17 billion-plus worth of military equipment is destroyed or worn out each year, blasted by bombs, ground down by desert sand and used up to nine times the rate in times of peace. The gear is piling up at depots such as Anniston, waiting to be repaired.........
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Wow -- frightening.
You know -- wouldn't it be so patriotic if Halliburton and our billions-in-profit oil companies would fork over some dough to equip the folks that are helping them get filthy rich?
This is just f*cking disgusting. Man, oh man...
This is hard to put into words but I have a bad feeling that all that damaged equipment may need to be repaired very quickly. Read something on the net that I'll have to find again but it stated the Saudis might move into Iraq to save their fellow Sunnis from being killed. That would force Iran to move into Shiite areas of Iraq to protect them and because the Turks hate the Kurds they would invade northern Iraq to keep the Kurdish minority in Turkey quiet and not wanting to join the now independent Kurds of Iraq. The warring factions in Iraq would then drag all the others into a regional war. And since we still carry an addiction to that region's oil and such a war would at least drive the price of oil into orbit wrecking our economy we may be forced into the war to secure it. A really great legacy for the old Maximum Ferret to look forward to.
I just read the book, Fiasco by Thomas Ricks and the lesson I learned was that there wasn't a single stage of strategy used in any part of this war . . . it was as if they intentionally did everything wrong and never thought of the future once. Idiots, the lot of them.
Oh, and in defense of Nerf Footballs . . . when I was over there, we had a seemingly unending supply of Nerfs and we loved them. We played catch and football all the time wherever we were. It was a much needed and appreciated tension reliever.
rjhjr (do you know how HARD that is to type??????)- all i can say is YUP. we (the american people) should all band together, STORM halliburton and TAKE their money and buy our troops what they need. PLUS we should give them and their families the leftover money
b b, shoot, i don't EVEN want to give that a second thought. the entire world would be DOOMED
rick, good to know! i send care packages to some soldiers i've adopted and i'm always looking for STUFF to pack. i ask what they want and very rarely if ever do they say, 'i want'. i had to threaten one of 'em and he finally said he wanted some hostess cupcakes (they're over there, in desperate peril and all he wanted was a cupcake or two)
I send them books - - not bestsellers, but mid-list genre publications, signed by the authors if I can swing it.
I also send them Beef Jerky - if you have a problem sending meat, that won't work. But, it's tasty and in very short supply in the desert.
hell no problem what so ever. i am not crazy - i ain't gonna be sendin' 'em no dried tofu jerky. yes, i send jerky. i know they like it. i send tuna in the pouch too. hot chocolate, tea. i have sent magazines, but i have only sent one book and that was to a woman. NOT that i think men don't read. i KNOW they do. the woman happened to be a post commander over there (unusual) and we ended up corresponding because she sent me a thank you letter from her boys (yes, they were all boys. she was the only babe around). she's no longer in iraq, but she AIN'T in a good place either. i'm not sure it's any better than iraq. she did get to spend some time home though.
rick, why does the world have to be so effed up?
the world is effed up because we let our most insane run things. like my favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut, puts it - in order to rise to the top of corporate or political power you must completely divorce yourself from a basic emotional connection to what your decisions do to individual people, in other words, you must be a sociopath. We let the sociopaths run things and admire them for not taking any of their actions and the results of those actions personally. Healthy, normal humans couldn't do that, and so these are the victims of the sociopathic personalities in charge.
yes rick, i agree with kurt and you. i knew that all along. i just sometimes try to wipe it away. it's a stubborn stain though
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