Re: TOE

At 1:50 PM -0500 7/3/04, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:
>Mil Specs.  God's answer to "more is better."

Depends on the milspec actually. I'll bet my 
M813A1 against any of the newer FMTVs for 
sturdiness. Its just heavier, noisier, a bit more 
service intensive in daily maintenance and uses 
more fuel. But it's solid. Now, FMTVs when the 
work all the bugs out and get the privates 
trained to not treat them like a POS CUCV, then 
they'll be somewhere.

>Seriously, more 'capabilities' means more things to break/fix.

So you subscribe to the Russian model? "Feh, 
gunner doesn't need range finder, just tell him 
to estimate....fire enough times, he figure it 
out."

I'll stick with the extra bits....

>Based on personal experience in 7 years in the USAF and three years as
>supply sergeant in a category 15 priority Army Reserve unit I (almost)
>believe the report from years ago that a private broke a splinter
shield
>off an old direct fire artillery display piece unaided by power tools
by
>accident.  I have the utmost faith that one of the worst things a
>sergeant can say is "What harm can one private do to [fill in the
>blank]?"

Nothing if private proof. Worse yet, I have a 
co-worker at CNN that can managed to mangle 
anything mechanical if you give him time. He can 
barely even install a system level on the four 
corner in a rack frame. What's scary is that he 
was a West Pointer.

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