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
References for my last post.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mrap+weight&btnG=Google+Search
http://thehill.com/business—lobby/firm-guards-niche-in-armored-vehicles-2007-07-24.html
http://investingfromtheright.blogspot.com/2007/02/february-18-2007-aero-defense-tidbits.html
Now, get your tin foil ready!!
Dennis J. Hejlik, Commander of MARSOC who publicly took kearney to the woodshed, has a dog in the MRAP fight....maybe he didn’t deliver enough goods to suit john murtha. We all know tha fat jack doesn’t take kindly to those who buck the buck.
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