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Subject: What Can We Do To Fix The US Army?
Softwar    2/13/2009 3:50:26 PM
Besides spares and maint. - Let's go with aviation equipment for starters - the Army needs a replacement for the remaining UH-1 choppers, a new light observation chopper to replace aging Kiowas, upgrades to the AH-64 force, and a new series of heavy lift choppers (or more Chinooks) to maintain air mobile levels. Now armor - we need to upgrade the Stryker and add more to replace low armored HUMVEEs in front line service. Ground transport - better armored trucks seem to be in order here. Artillery - can someone please finallly pick a SP 155 platform that makes sense?? Infantry - we have the M-4 procurement to complete and Geeezzz Louise... replace the 9 MM pistol with the 1911. Buy more 50 cals. Improve local intell - small UAVs, trained translators and handlers instead of tearing around town trying to be nasty. ID systems for both captured enemy as well as friendly forces. Training and logistical support - develop and deploy small unit tactics - these were very ineffective especially in urban environments. A NTC for small unit and urban warfare is in order here. Make use of combat experience vets instead of simply letting them wander off. We did that in WII and Korea - it works and saves lives. Instead, we muster them out after being assured they will not go bezerk and pop a cap in someone. Leadership!!! The patrol and plaster tactics used during OIF took too many casualties and left guys with their butts hanging out without proper communications, air support or control. Officers were slow to utilize unmanned/robot systems - instead they opted to bust down doors with the old bad-ass entry and shoot 'em up. Top brass are more interested in micro managing unit activity than trying to supply them with the tools and turning them loose.
 
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HERALD1357    Province and city.   2/23/2009 6:41:32 PM

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Save it for the true believers. I can read a land-based LOC  routing plan, TOO, Darth. 
 
Herald
 
 
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DarthAmerica    Herald, YOUR maps and OUR maps look very different. On this issue of LOC, you are dead wrong. You don't have access to the data. Figure it out.   2/23/2009 7:34:22 PM
 
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HERALD1357    35,000 miles of load bearing roadnet in Iraq-40 tonne burden limit.   2/23/2009 8:32:44 PM
Satisfied?:

CUT THE CRAP, Darth. Your claims of so called secret knowledge don't fly with me.
 
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/images/oif_mil-comm-routes-map_may04.jpg" width="800" height="596" /> 
 
Now you want to tell me again, you know what you discuss? 
 
Herald
 
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DarthAmerica       2/23/2009 9:03:42 PM
 
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DarthAmerica    Humble yourself Herald, before I make it more obvious how misinformed you are about OIF Logistics...   2/23/2009 9:23:28 PM

Story by: SSG Bryant Maude 
1st Sustainment Brigade PAO

CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq ? The 32 day journey was long, complicated, grueling, both hot and cold at times, but according to several members of the Heavy Equipment Truck Transport Platoon, it was totally worth it.

"I had a blast," stated Staff Sgt. David Jenkins, a New London, Ohio, native, and squad leader for the HETT Platoon, 416th Transportation Company, 165th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade. "I'd give just about anything to do it again."

"It was a good break," said Sgt. Isidro Sanchez, a Midland, Texas, native, and truck driver. "I wish more of these jobs came down."

They were tasked to pick up dozens of heavy vehicles like the M1A2 Abram tank from Camp Buehring in Kuwait and deliver them to multiple destinations throughout Iraq.

The mission was just one of many this platoon of 54 Soldiers has embarked on since their arrival in Iraq July 2007, but it may very well have been their most memorable.

Their leader is a young officer from Sultan, Washington, 1st Lt. Erik Solberg. Solberg, a graduate of Gonzaga University, with a degree in Criminal Justice, believes in the abilities of his non commissioned officers and prefers to delegate rather than micro-manage.

"I trust them to make the right decisions and if they make mistakes I'll back them up," said Solberg.

The journey was broken up into four legs that took the platoon across large expanses of desert roads throughout Iraq and Kuwait, and since they would be away from Camp Taji, their home base at the time, it would mean little to no life support. They would need to anticipate all their needs ahead of time and carry as much as they could.

"We put our stuff in tuff boxes and duffle bags," recalls Jenkins. "Every now and then we'd pull into a place with washers and dryers and then we'd wash our clothes."

They spent all day or night driving and they would sleep in the cabs of their truck. They eat in a dinning facility when they could otherwise there was meals ready to eat or MRE's, snacks, water and Gatorade on ice, and sandwiches they saved from the last location they stopped at.

"We never went hungry. I mean you might miss lunch by an hour, but there was always the dinner meal," recalled Jenkins.

On leg two of their journey, about two hours south of Forward Operating Base Sykes the clouds opened up and poured rain on the crew something fierce.

"We rolled into a check point, couldn't see ten feet in front of our face and as a result blew a few tires rubbing up against the barriers" recalled Jenkins. "So we stopped long enough to change the tires and finished our journey up to Sykes."

Spc. Lonnie Woodard, a Cleveland, Al., native, and a driver with the HETT Platoon along with Sgt. Glenn Rice, a Milton, Florida, native, also a driver, went to work changing the tires.

"We were fortunate to have a few truck drivers with mechanical experience of their own," said Sgt 1st Class Andrew Durant, a McCormick, S.C., native, and platoon sergeant.

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verong       2/23/2009 11:16:00 PM




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Save it for the true believers. I can read a land-based LOC  routing plan, TOO, Darth. 


 

Herald


 



Hey Hearld,
 
are you confusing al Basrah the province with the city????
 
Sincerely,
 
Keith
 
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HERALD1357    No.   2/24/2009 7:59:17 AM
Attacks on Convoy Route 1 come out of al Basrah- and shipping for Convoy Route 1 unloads at al Basrah as well as Kuwait City.
 
Herald
 
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DarthAmerica    Again, Heralds logistical data and threat assessments are wrong.    2/24/2009 8:43:19 AM
 
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HERALD1357    Don't you get tired of asserting?   2/24/2009 9:07:06 AM
How about some RELEVANT FACTS?
 
You repeat yourself..."he's wrong he's wrong, when I keep showing you producing errant nonsense with citing published reports from multiple sources negating you is getting tiresome and senseless.

DO BETTER!
 
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DarthAmerica    You don't have a clearance, you haven't been there, YOU DONT KNOW. I do and have been there which is why I know you are FOS   2/24/2009 11:03:46 AM
 
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