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HUNTER: Let Marines be Marines - Defense cuts that hobble amphibious landings are foolish
Washington Times ^
| 1/25/11
| Duncan D. Hunter
Posted on 01/25/2011 11:00:37 PM PST by pissant
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Bob Gates is a disaster.
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:00:40 PM PST
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pissant
To: pissant
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:06:17 PM PST
by
Irenic
To: pissant
Well, they need something to replace the AAV. Those things are old and outdated.
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:21:03 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(BORN free - taxed to DEATH)
To: smokingfrog
When we can insert them from orbit, we’ll be getting somewhere.
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:33:01 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: pissant
General Dynamics got the AAAV (EFV) contract back in '98. After 13 years, they've sunk at least $10 billion int it and still have many technical problems to sort out.
With Anti-Ship Missiles available nowadays, they would be sitting ducks. Even with days of softening up landing areas, as was done at Iwo Jima for example, look at the resistance the Japanese were still able to offer. And the Anti-Ship Missles can be fired miles inland from a beach.
Duncan's editorial might as well have a General Dynamics letterhead on it.
To: tet68
Some in the Pentagon have it in for the Marines. Only a few short years ago they were bashing the V-22, which is performing flawlessly now in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the new amphib vehicle and the STOVL X35 replacement for the Harrier.
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:39:14 PM PST
by
SENTINEL
(Mormonism...from Ezra Taft Benson to Reid and Romney in only one generation.)
To: tet68
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:41:15 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(BORN free - taxed to DEATH)
To: muleskinner
Horsemanure. We have the ability to take control of beachheads via air power like never before. Gotta get the boys off the boats somehow.
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posted on
01/25/2011 11:47:36 PM PST
by
pissant
((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
To: muleskinner
What’s the big deal with missiles? Do we not maneuver on land against RPG, wire guided and other missiles? Do aviation units not go about their tasks in missile filled environments? What’s the purpose of chain guns, chaff, electronic warfare aboard ships?
Seriously, when was the last time the US needed a forced amphibious landing? Korea?
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posted on
01/26/2011 12:05:57 AM PST
by
Leisler
(They always lie, and have for so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.http://ma)
To: smokingfrog
Do they come in light blue, if so...I'll take Two
....Charge IT!
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posted on
01/26/2011 12:08:54 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Imam Zer0: "Don't retire or get sick, just die! ...& remember pay all my fees / taxes" :)
To: pissant
Bob Gates is a disaster.That comment deserves a BUMP....
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posted on
01/26/2011 12:11:49 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Imam Zer0: "Don't retire or get sick, just die! ...& remember pay all my fees / taxes" :)
To: SENTINEL
The Marines have/going to spend 30 billion on the Osprey. Maybe more. Too bad they didn’t spend one single dollar on Mine Resistant Vehicles( fifty year old technology ) during all of Vietnam, post Vietnam( 30+ years ) and were forced to take them in Iraq. I figure just in Iraq 500 Marines were killed and many thousands severely injured. ( More for the Army ).
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01/26/2011 12:17:04 AM PST
by
Leisler
(They always lie, and have for so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.http://ma)
To: pissant
While I’m not wedded to the EFV as designed and made by GD, I do observe that the second-generation prototype vehicles are performing far better than the SDD-1 vehicles did in 2006 (reliability-wise). Another few months seems a small price to pay to analyze the latest design test results and decide on the basis of facts rather than emotions.
TC
To: pissant
Still supporting pork spending on something of no practical use.
To: org.whodat
Since when is it pork? It’s been under development since before Bush came to office. The Marines have wanted this since forever.
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01/26/2011 8:12:25 AM PST
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pissant
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To: pissant
I want a pony, but cannot get the old lady to buy it. The pacific war is long over.
To: org.whodat
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posted on
01/26/2011 11:07:46 AM PST
by
SZonian
(July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
To: SZonian
History has always shown a military getting ready to fight the last war and they are never prepared with the correct equipment for the next one. Just look we had to start a school to train men to pack mules, just unbelievable.
To: org.whodat
Lord knows there will never be another war requiring a beach landing.
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posted on
01/26/2011 11:39:52 AM PST
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pissant
((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
To: pissant
The last beach landing, the news people were there to film it. And yes i doubt there will ever be another war that requires a beach landing. Urban warfare takes tanks and etc.
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