Thag works in the Army procurement system. We can't do anything without the funding from Congress and the identified, validated need from the field. Even when we get that, it takes time to get a contract in place and get product out the door, and more time to ship the product to the troops. Case in point: a year ago when we were "running out of bullets" we started urgent buys from second sources in the States and elsewhere. That was November 2003. We didn't start getting the bullets from those contracts until May-June of 2004, and that's as fast as "the system" will move.
thag
Exactly my point, it seems to me that some people in "the system" (ie..Lott, Collins, McCain) need to start pointing their fingers at a mirror in order to answer the questions they are now posing in the press as to who's "fault" it was these UAHs didn't get made faster.