Military Tries to Fast-Forward to Safety

[Rose Siding]

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Although much of the attention has been on retrofitting vehicles with armor plating, the Pentagon also has moved to upgrade predeployment training.

The latest wrinkle is a video simulation trainer that presents troops with scenarios they are very likely to confront when they move in convoys transporting troops and supplies.

Similar simulation trainers have long been used for tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles, as well as attack aircraft and helicopters. Even submarines have simulation trainers.

But until the Iraq insurgency began to target convoys with deadly results, the idea of a simulation trainer for Humvees was not a priority.
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"We find ourselves in a kind of training crisis," said Army Maj. Ted Perryman, with the Army's simulation, training and instrumentation command in Orlando, Fla.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-convoy5jun05,1,3489863.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[meganmonkey]

1. Well, it sounds like a good thing to protect the troops

but once I got to the part in the article that said contracts were going to Raydon and Lockheed to provide the training, I remembered why military decisions really get made :(