Study: Delayed delivery of trucks led to Marine deaths

[alfredo]

More evidence of how our military has gone down hill.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/16/marines.mrap.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes.


Mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks can cost between $450,000 and $1 million.

The study was written by a civilian Marine Corps official and obtained by The Associated Press.

It accuses the service of "gross mismanagement" that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks for more than two years.

[thunder rising]

1. The Mercenaries get them first. GIs don't count, just ask Hillary, she put them there.

[Bobbieo]

2. I'm sure the McCain camp will love to know that!!! Be sure to keep them

informed!!!!

[alfredo]

3. I'm sure they have a crack opposition machine ready to pounce.