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To: Boot Hill

The real question is, why aren't we doing this?


35 posted on 05/17/2004 5:26:07 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner
"why aren't we doing this?"

Allow me to quote from a previous reply to that question:

Imagine yourself a frontline infantry commander and Lt. Numbnuts comes to you asking you to approve a requisition for a several million dollar AN/MPQ-51, Hawk Missile Battery, target ranging radar. You ask Lt. Numbnuts whether he's lost his friggen mind, but he tells you that he's convinced that this radar should be able to set off terrorists IED bombs from a distance, thereby avoiding coalition casualties. Now the ball's in your court Colonel, as a career officer, do you care to bump *that* req. up the chain of command with your signature on it???

The military does not have a good history of rewarding creative thinking and great imaginations. This would have to be a "top down" project, for the brass to accept it. If CENTCOM has a "special contingencies" or "rapid reaction" committee, it could be suggested to them for speedy implementation, but you need a contact to get it before that committee. We used to have such a contact on FR, but he's no longer here.

--Boot Hill

37 posted on 05/17/2004 6:39:46 PM PDT by Boot Hill (America...thy hand shall be upon the neck of thine enemies.)
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