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To: JerseyanExile

and why in a time of shrinking budgets, fewer combat troops, and uncertain types of future wars, are we spending money on a new truck? sounds like more corrupt decision making from a corrupt pentagon. (as a former armor officer it pains me to see how low the perfume princes have sunk.)


2 posted on 08/27/2012 1:02:40 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (if the little things really annoy you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: bravo whiskey
sounds like more corrupt decision making from a corrupt pentagon. (as a former armor officer it pains me to see how low the perfume princes have sunk.)

Holding a position as a contracting officer for a successful project is the ticket to the next promotion, but you are right, they have sunk awfully low.

7 posted on 08/27/2012 1:59:30 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: bravo whiskey
"why in a time of shrinking budgets, fewer combat troops, and uncertain types of future wars, are we spending money on a new truck?"

The JLTV has been under development for at least a decade. It combines the HMMWV and the FMTV which are both 30 plus year old technology. A major advancement is better IED protection.

20 posted on 08/27/2012 5:35:01 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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