Comments on: Army Axing High-Tech Uniforms, “Future”

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:16:23 +0000

i know that cuts are everywhere and are things that need tbe cut. cutting equipment/gear or anything such as this that can save our military people and make them better prepared than the enemy wherever they are just shows that the brains that make decisions for the government and especially the military are not working or caring for OUR AMERICAN goverment or its military defenders of AMERICA. WHO ARE THEY REALLY SUPPORTING AND REPORTING TO, DO THEY NOT CARE FOR AMERICA ANDWANT US TO BE HERE IN THE FUTURE/ SHAME ON THEM, GOD BLESS OUR MEN AND WOMEN THAT DO CARE AND THAT ARE FIGHTING TO SAVE AMERICA AND THOSE WHO DO NOT CARE.

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:15:25 +0000

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:15:32 +0000

Byron is a short-sighted moron that doesn’t understand how fielded equipment becomes as dependable as it needs to be to support the greatest military force the world has known. It is a 10 year development cycle and by cutting these programs along with other development and combat systems, it will severly hamper our future abilities and in the long run cost more as contractors have to keep aging systems on life support to catch up to our enemies. As COL Jessup said in a A Few Good Men, congratulations, you just made a nation weaker today!

By: Steven F. Palter, MD

Steven F. Palter, MD — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:17:28 +0000

Many do not realize tha a huge amount of medical R&D and new devices comes to us from the military via DARPA developments. Land Warrior already has countless technologies that would lead to medical breakthroughs– cutting this will cut this possible future.
you can read more at
http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/08/army-axing-high-tech-soldier-of-tomorrow-medtech-losses-predicted/

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:06:15 +0000

Good Morning Folks,
I agree with “Robot” on the Army’s FCS although it’s not dead this $167 Billion of waste and pork is at least stopped for awhile.
The only comment I can add is why stop here, how about DDX, CVX, LPH®, V-22, F-22, F-35 and Missile Defense?
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: Haninah

Haninah — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:31:33 +0000

I know absolutely nothing about Land Warrior or FCS, so I don’t know if this would be a good thing or a bad thing, but: sounds like there’s at least a chance that this is what some folks call a Washington Monument Drill.
Say the National Parks Service is told they need to cut their budget. They huddle, and come out and announce with a straight face that in light of the cuts, they’ll have to shut down the Washington Monument. The Hill panics, and restores full funding.
That’s what the Pentagon did all of a year ago, when they announced that any budget cuts would have to come out of National Guard budget, and sure ’nuff, Congress backed right down. Now, it could be that Land Warrior is the Army’s Washington Monument. Any time there’s an announcement that budget cuts are going to be absorbed by the part of the budget that makes the least sense to cut, look for the ol’ W.M.D.

By: Robot Economist

Robot Economist — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:34:10 +0000

I could dance on the Land Warrior’s grave, but I’ll just gloat quietly with beer in hand.
As for the Future Combat Systems cut backs, its about time some of FCS’s little Indians start to fall. With luck we’ll be down to 8–10 or so when this stuff goes up for the system dev and demo stage.