Posted on Mar 4, 2016
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Essentially we're looking at the difference between "Buy more for the same price by shopping smarter." and "You can fill an ever expanding and bottomless pit by tossing money down it faster and faster and faster and ...".
Donald Trump is right about defense spending – and that should scare you
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Election 2016
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Defense
Budget
Posted 9 y ago
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Two debates ago Trump was making a point about not being the worlds police and was cutoff by Rubio discussing the national debt and Cruz quickly interjected that America is the beacon of freedom and the leader. The reality is the national debt and are stance in the world only reaffirms the underlying point that you can be the worlds policeman, but you don't have to be the worlds bill payer. Make the other countries pay through the nose for what we do for them and financially punish those that stand in our way. Our debt cannot allow us to continue to pay for everything ourselves.
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COL Ted Mc
CPT Mark Gonzalez - Captain; President GHW Bush managed to do that in Gulf War I. Since ALL the figures aren't releasable, I can't tell you if the US made a profit on that one or not.
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Anyone has served in the Military is that the Government always goes with the Lowest Bidder!
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COL Ted Mc
SPC Andrew Griffin - Spec; If you write the product specifications carefully enough then you can deal with that policy by ensuring that there is only one supplier that can meet the specifications (which means that they are the "lowest bidder" regardless of what they are charging).
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Damn it's scary when you admit that Trump is right. We have gear that was designed for a certain area, and in some cases rather than bring it home, they were destroyed in place. We don't have a real "all around" fighting machine...the Stryker could be, but I've never been in one, but do see how it can be configured in many ways to suit different missions. We cannot prepare for every contingency, but we can spend better in forecasting what would happen. The Army has gone through three uniforms in the last 15 years. Pink and Greens were around for a short while, but OD green fatigues were around how long and were effective at that? BDU's...perfect uniform until you go to the desert. Everything after that has been a joke on one level or another with the USMC laughing their asses off at everyone else. The F-35 has sucked the finical life out of the AF, the Littoral Combat Ship...my personal verdict is out on that one (still upset that Big E was decommissioned tho). We need to do better. Eliminate some of these DARPA projects that won't work, or the R&D is decades old with no tangible results. The services could make some money back in the sale of some of their vehicles. I loved my COUGAR. I'd buy one in a minute if I could. That same attitude sparked GM to make a Civilian HUMMER. We have the brains in place to make things happen, but the brains are being overruled by congress protecting their own asses while forsaking the country as a whole.
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COL Ted Mc
SSG Warren Swan - Staff; I can see the need for specific campats but I have some problems with issuing a "standard" campat for everyday use (especially if you are going to be issuing a different "standard" campat and then authorizing that one for everyday use).
At one time the military had a "garrison working uniform" (by whatever one of the multiple names that it was known that you want to call it). That uniform was utilitarian and could have been issued to all services with only a change in dye color. Campat uniforms could have been issued as needed (which means that you'd need a lot fewer of them [but the increase in unit cost would have been minimal AND more than offset by the savings in unit cost for the "working uniform".
There isn't anything that looks much sillier than CPO in USN campat in the middle of Arizona.
Quite frankly the whole campat uniform thing reminds me of something that happened in the 1980s in Canada when the CF issued its "Garrison Dress" uniform that looked a whole lot like the traditional paratrooper's camouflage jacket and boots combined with a "dressy" pair of pants. That uniform certainly made the CF's "Chairborne Division" look like real (as Bill Mauldin used to call them) "Garritroopers". (At least it did until they discovered that the "Garrison Boots" were unsafe to wear on the highly polished floors found in typical "pointy hat" combat areas.
At one time the military had a "garrison working uniform" (by whatever one of the multiple names that it was known that you want to call it). That uniform was utilitarian and could have been issued to all services with only a change in dye color. Campat uniforms could have been issued as needed (which means that you'd need a lot fewer of them [but the increase in unit cost would have been minimal AND more than offset by the savings in unit cost for the "working uniform".
There isn't anything that looks much sillier than CPO in USN campat in the middle of Arizona.
Quite frankly the whole campat uniform thing reminds me of something that happened in the 1980s in Canada when the CF issued its "Garrison Dress" uniform that looked a whole lot like the traditional paratrooper's camouflage jacket and boots combined with a "dressy" pair of pants. That uniform certainly made the CF's "Chairborne Division" look like real (as Bill Mauldin used to call them) "Garritroopers". (At least it did until they discovered that the "Garrison Boots" were unsafe to wear on the highly polished floors found in typical "pointy hat" combat areas.
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