From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 06:48:32 PDT
At 10:18 PM -0700 10/19/04, Bruce C. Beattie wrote:
>Hi Ryan,
> Any idea why they haven't figured a way to
>have the rounds loaded automatically instead of
>being hand fed?
They'd have to add a whole bunch more kit that's
hard to make really reliable. And, autoloaders
delete a crewman that helps reduce the workload.
4 Man crews have been determined by the west as a
standard for maintaining crew functionality in a
long duration environment.
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