From: Ronzo (rojoha@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 11:59:13 PDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] List of Inadequate Eqiupment used in Iraq
> > Putting all the GEE WHIZ electronics only in the equipment state
side,
> >not the forward deployed stuff. Since we can rapidly load and transit an
> >entire division and reach ANYPLACE in the world in 21 DAYS from the GO
> >order. Then sit around for 4 weeks looking for dock space.(Hmmm...where
did
> >I put that landing craft thingy that the Marines used?)
RYAN WRITES......
> The Marines forgo a lot of assets in an MEU to maintain an amphibious
> capability. Some of the Gee Whiz stuff gets real things done. Are
> UAVs too gee whiz? What about hard core crypto or DF gear? What about
> Area Denial Munitions that will stop an armored attack cold with out
> exposing your troops to their direct fires?
>
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> - Ryan Montieth Gill '01 Honda Insight -
> - rmgill@SPAmindspring.com '85 CB700S -
RONZO WRITES.....
It was more a poke at the 4th ID with its (VERY EXPENSIVE) Integrated
Battlefield Information System (IBIS) that allows even the MKT's to know
what's going on in real time and do take out, and supposedly receives Direct
TV and can even be used as an ATM..... though mostly in this case, it will
allow the 4th ID to watch live CNN coverage of the 3rd ID taking Baghdad
while they match up with their equipment. Since they will be policing
Baghdad instead of seizing it, the system will most likely be used like MDTs
in police cars stateside...kind of appropriate, don't ya think? "1 ADAM 12,
1 ADAM 23, report of a man waving an RPG and a corndog, at Al Salam Palace,
at the intersections of Al Fallujah Street and Dimashq Street, code 2. Air
support will be POGO flight of two ALPHA-10's and CLAW flight of two ALPHA
HOTEL-1's. push Hotel Tango 3 for PROMETHEUS " Bradelys with " To Protect
and Serve " on the side..... it's a beautiful thing.....Wonder when the ACLU
sets up a branch in Baghdad, the ICLU?
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