"This isn't Wal-Mart." (Brig Gen on speed of procuring armored vehicles)

[The Straight Story]

"This isn't Wal-Mart."

-- Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, the Army's director of acquisition management, on the limits to the speed with which the service can procure armored vehicles.


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[XNASA]

1. Humvee's are manufactured in China?

Who knew?

[tngledwebb]

3. Walmart keeps China's child labor economy strong.

Ruins America, but always has a lot of red white and blue hung thru the store.

[zbdent]

6. I saw plenty of HumVees at Wal-Mart

priced at $99.99. Unfortunately, they looked like I could kick the shi- out of them.

Now, the ones in the parking lot are a different matter. Still, I don't think they'd withstand an IED (or an IUD for that matter).

[DrWeird]

2. That's great. Dead troops and a Walmart commercial.

I wonder how much they paid him.

[blue neen]

4. Sadly, so true.

Spot on.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

5. It ain't rocket science either, pal

You are bolting and welding steel plate to a vehicle.

One issue that hasn't been brought up regarding up-armor of vehicles.

It isn't sexy, so it doesn't get funded, approved, etc. Nobody is going to be able to run for office claiming one of their main achievements was the armoring of vehicles. It doesn't require hundreds of billions of dollars, require tens of years to develop, and it doesn't go boom.

And unlike so many other programs, tthe success of up-armoring vehicles is measured in human lives saved, not lives destroyed

DBDB

[skygazer]

7. Yeah, well according to the ONE company

that is contracted to provide armor plating for those vehicles, they could easily double production but the government has never asked them to or made any request saying that there is any urgency to the need.

[RamboLiberal]

8. Aren't you glad these idiots weren't in charge during WWII?

1943 2nd full year of US in WWII
Manufacturered:
29,500 Tanks
86,000 Warplanes
2.5 Million Tons of Warships
12.5 Million Tons of Merchant ships.

And in the entire war 640,000 Jeeps were produced. 13,000 GPA Amphibious Jeeps.