[Wally_Kalbacken]

This one disturbed me too. The last time the media stirred the weaponry/equipment pot it was over up armored Humvees. Has anyone seen the analysis of fatalities in retro armored Humvees? The "road accident" deaths exceeded the IED deaths at one point about a year ago. You take a system designed for one set of circumstances and you hastily modify it and guess what? unintended consequences rear their ugly little heads - and you get a lot of troops killed because the center of gravity in the vehicles has been radically altered.

I don't know jack about armored vehicles (other that the observation above, based on an article from the NYT), serving in the military, or designing weapons systems. But neither does Lisa Meyers or the producers and writers who wrote her cue cards. I hope some General who will have to testify about all this media induced concern is turned loose on these fools and the Democrats on the Armed Services committees, who will no doubt amplify this crap.

[HardStarboard]

Perfect is the enemy of "good enough"! [Russian? proverb]

Do you suppose if we had a weapon that was only 40% effective against IED's, we would fail to "test deploy" it at a minimum?

If this thing can knock an RPG down - lets try it. You don't have to give it to every unit all at once. But not testing it borders on criminal neglect!!

I'll bet Rummy wasn't the one that killed the testing!!

[ASOC]

I hope an Airbrone CSM or treadhead gets there first.

Tonite PMSNBC will be in some "ordinary" grunts home watching the Pres's speach - so they can get some instant feedback, like they really care about a grunt.

It ain't news, it's Agiprop - pure and simple. And nobody in the Administration dare call it for what it is.