Read the bleeding article. Anyone still want a Humvee with canvas doors? 95% of them aren't armored to stop 30 cal rounds. If all they did was drive beans from A to B in safe areas, no problem. As a fact, they are used to mount regular patrols in combat zones. M113s would do that job about 100 times better and we already have them.
Instead, we have men in the field lining their Hummers with sandbags and tacking on scrap steel themselves. These are not rational actions by the supposedly well prepared military of the greatest industrial power in human history. When Spec-4s are roaming Iraqi junkyards for sheet-metal, something is seriously wrong (TM). Kindly remove the wax from your ears, drop the mere boosterism, and pay attention to what actually happens.
Perhaps you should look up the definition of the word 'substandard'.
"Kindly remove the wax from your ears, drop the mere boosterism, and pay attention to what actually happens."
Judging by your unqualified [and I suspect unserving]perspective I'd venture a guess that my personal experience leads me to have a firmer grasp on "what actually happens" in Iraq than yours does.
Let it [113] go for this AO...the Military did a long time ago.