Sometimes i nearly feel its hypocritical for me to support the war without sacrificing my own flesh and blood for the cause like so many families are doing.
Its so much easier for me to support the war without My OWN kids in harms way. My nephew is going to boot camp in a couple of weeks, good kid.
"This is the first losses to the sbct and I can say I know what they are going through."
I pray it will also be the last loss.
You'll find that there are several of us here, myself included, with experience in both armor and light armored cars, and others who've at least dealt to some extent with both wheeled and tracked vehicles, who are at best very skeptical of the Stryker vehicle and it's capabilities, and in at least some respects, downright condemnatory of the vehicle, particularly when compared with existing alternates.
But I do want you to know that that is in no way a reflection of those inside those vehicles, who are doing their jobs the best they can and are in some instances trying to make a pigs ear into a silk purse. Some of those in the Strykers are friends anbd confidants of ours, too, and our doubts about the vehicle do not extend to those inside them
Indeed, it's because their lives are precious to us as fellow soldiers, friends or relatives, that we want nothing less than the very best equipment for them to asccomplish their tasks with, keeping the number of casualties from hostile fire and vehicular accidents as mercifully low as possible.
So know that criticism of the Stryker as a vehicle, or the possible arrangement of the SCBT as a force structure are not, NOT NOT leveled at those aboard them...save, perhaps a few senior officers in on the ramrodded Stryker procurement scheme. May God save and protect those in the Strykers. They need all the help they can get- whether in that vehicle, or any other.
-archy-/-