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MRAPs Displayed on Aberdeen Proving Ground
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:31 pm
by Stephen Eisel
I hope that this vehicle begins saving lives in Iraq.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsart ... x?id=47178
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsart ... x?id=47093
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Aug. 24, 2007 – A team of test operators and mechanics here gave members of the media and other visitors a firsthand look today at the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, which is currently being tested on its automotive quality and ability to protect servicemembers’ lives.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:22 am
by ryan costa
it is a low-capital war. it is a human intensive war. I mean, the part of the war that is after the previous part of the war we got victoried.
these MRAPs are half a million dollars each and go through gas like gatorade.
for the price of an MRAP we could be shipping the Iraqis 50 pick up trucks with a few armor plating walls in the beds. They could drive in small convoys with six guys in the back to shoot in all directions with machine guns. It is a human intensive security effort. Iraqis work cheap. The insurgency is not a capital intensive insurgency. It is a human intensive insurgency.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:48 pm
by Stephen Eisel
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:38 am
by Jeff Endress
I hope that by the time they have approved this vehicle, and produced enough of them that they could make a difference, that we'll no longer be in Iraq. Most assuredly it would save the lives of our servicemen (and women) to get them out of harm's way....
Jeff