"noname" wrote in message
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According to internal Pentagon e-mails obtained by Newsweek, the Humvee
situation is so bad that the head of the U.S. Army Forces Command, Gen.
Larry Ellis, has urged that more of the new Stryker combat vehicles be
put into the field. Sources say that the Army brass back in Washington
have not yet concurred with that. The problem: the rubber-tire Strykers
are thin-skinned and don't maneuver through dangerous streets as well as
the fast-pivoting, treaded Bradley.

Duh. But the problem you posted was in reference to the HMMWV, not the
Bradley. Given a choice between a HMMWV (even uparmored) and a Stryker, the
Stryker looks very good. And being a wheeled vehicle, it will more than
likely be better in terms of both road mobility and maintenance (easier to
change a tire than a track) when compared to the Bradley which you sort of
slipped in after-the-fact.


According to a well-placed Defense Department source, the Army is so
worried about the Stryker's vulnerability that most of the 300-vehicle
brigade currently in Iraq has been deployed up in the safer Kurdish
region around Mosul. "Any further south, and the Army was afraid the
Arabs would light them up," he says.

Beware the anonymous source. They are sending HMMWV's into areas where they
are getting killed outised the Kurdish areas--what does *that* tell you
about this Bozo's quote?

Brooks



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