Nomorenarcissism
This video clip reveals that Senator Santorum and others could not over-ride clearly stupid and tactically unsound wheeled Stryker truck purchases sent to them by general officers directly connected to General Dynamics who imports the road-bound, bloated, flat-bottomed deathraps from Canada by promises of post-retirement job promises FOR THEM. The American workers losing their jobs would have no "golden parachute" while the corrupt generals receive not only riches from contracts they instigated while in uniform, they receive a full retirement at taxpayer's expense to jet set around the world as corporate big shots. Just look at all the retired Army officers now working for GDLS getting huge salaries while Soldiers of lesser rank are getting burned up and maimed in Stryker trucks.
Adding to the list of motorized lame infantry sorrows are never ending "discoveries" of fatal flaws in the air-filled rubber-tired LAV-type egowagon.
http://eureferendum2.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
"The Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) - as it is known -is a 'conventional' wheeled armoured vehicle, one designed for the European battlefield. Its fatal weakness - in common with most vehicles of the type - is that it is not designed to be operated in a fully closed down condition for long periods of time. Visibility is restricted and crew comfort (especially when it is hot) suffers. By any measure, this equipment is far from ideal for use as convoy escorts or as patrols in counter-insurgency operations."
Narcissism and corporate greed run (ruin) the U.S. military...the USMC internally knows their LAV-1s are crap yet refuses to admit it in public lest their weak egos get bruised and said nothing when Shinseki started to buy LAV-IIIs (so much for loyalty to America and the other services) and have lusted to buy more LAVs since their thin steel boxes are corroding and cracking when not being burned through by landmines and RPGs in Iraq. Their egoracket falsade must be maintained at all costs! Form before function! Image before reality! Status quo before victory!
www.geocities.com/paratroop2000/strykerhorrors.htm
Look at the recent PBS documentary, "Afghanistan: the Other War", Go to 2:58 and see why the Canadians have gone to tracks in Afghanistan like other smarter armies, Brits, Dutch etc. Canadian LAV-IIIs hopelessly stuck in mud, breaks main bearing, mission aborted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFMix3dudU
In fact, the "New" LAV3Stryker wheeled infantry wagon dates back to 1954: a competent U.S. Army rejected it 53 years ago!
www.combatreform.com/usarmyrejectedLAV3STRYKERmotorizedtrucksin1954.jpg
Page 77 of Hunnicutt's book "Bradley: a History of American Fighting and Support Vehicles" shows the post-Korean war U.S. Army considered wheeled tin cans to motorize troops along with cross-country-mobile tracks. The "revolutionary", "new" road-bound wheels were rejected and M113 Gavin tracks were built; 57 years of combat success has followed ever since. Those that say LAV3/Strykers are "newer" are incompetent ignorants of armored vehicle history or willing liars.
Even if you are not immediately incinerated killed or maimed, being constantly ambushed by the enemy because your wheeled truck cannot leave roads/trails/streets is damaging to us. Taxpayers hurt. Enemy happy. Civilians see Americans cannot defend themselves much less them.
What matters in war is VICTORY--not prolonged operations however "brilliantly executed" (Sun Tzu said this--but since when do light infantry narcissists READ or THINK? Why bother listing sources?)
If we go broke operating easily ambushed wheeled trucks we will be forced to leave Iraq as surely as being defeated in a WW2-style pitched battle.
If you buy into the Canadian-made Stryker wheeled truck created by the liberal, big-government Clinton administration to do feel-good nation-building that is killing/maiming our Soldiers, that makes you a liberal, doesn't it?
These poor Canadian LAV-III Soldiers are just plain DEAD:
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=b002bedc-45bb-4...
Private Simon Longtin first Van Doo killed in Afghanistan
Pte. Simon Longtin, 23, was travelling in a LAV-III armoured vehicle when it struck an improvised explosive device.
http://www.herofund.ca/?cat=74
Name: Master Corporal Christian Duchesne
Age:34
Died: August 22, 2007
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
Children: Three daughters
Unit : 5th Field Ambulance (Valcartier, Quebec)
Master Corporal Christian Duchesne was a member of the 5th Field Ambulance, based at Valcartier, Quebec. Duchesne was killed when his armoured, LAV-III vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan.
For a sampling of all the U.S. Army LAV-III/Stryker and USMC LAV-1 needless dead:
http://www.combatreform.com/strykerhorrors.htm
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American soldier "I killed innocent people"by wallidjan225,711 views
Of course Congress won't do anything about it --- it's too LUCRATIVE for them!
BlacktailFA 4 years ago
This is the military industrial complex at work. Eisenhower warned of it when he left office.
TheDesertFox45 4 years ago