No, the point is the Army AND the Marine Corps said they didn't need that many---Period.
I understand they didn’t work well for the USMC, too heavy and cumbersome. I’ll say here and now that I think this is nothing more than john murtha with his fingers in the cookie jar AGAIN. Not only are jarheads murdering scum in his mind, they’re stupid murdering scum and he knows better than anyone else what we need on the ground and where it should be placed. If he had his way, Okinawa would be sinking from the weight of MRAPs. As it is, he’d be satisfied if they’d all just be stuck in the MRAPs in that quagmire of sand known to him as Iraq.
The more realistic headline could be any one of these options...
Study: Waste of Tax Dollars to Study Why the World Doesn’t Operate on fat jack’s Agenda
MRAPs Coast Marine Lives
Fat Jack Wants a Massacre