Hello Doc,
I can understand your point about wear and tear. But one drawback of rails in a
combat theater is that they present a helluva target for air interdiction. Hard to
detour a train around a well placed crater. Logistics can quickly become bogged
down in the Joneses; one side blows it up, so the other side repairs it, so the
other side blows it up, ad nauseum. Road transport can be much more flexible.
Pete Davis
pandr@cybertours.com
RoughDoc@aol.com wrote:
> Even more interesting is that those units in Milwaukee, are the LAST and ONLY
> train units in the US Army of any type!
>
> Rail has been something that the military has ignored for years now. I look
> back at the Gulf War, and know that we could have saved all sorts of wear and
> tear on our vehicles and resupplied quicker if we had installed a light rail
> system. The technology exists today to install it quickly over long lengths.
>
> Doc
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