Land Warrior has been on a slow boil for years and has undergone several changes since its inception.
I’ve written extensively on the program and visited the Army’s 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment in Iraq in 2008 which was testing the latest version of the system. There’s some good, some bad but clearly the information superiority offered by something like Land Warrior is a net plus.
But let the Soldiers themselves talk about it. Here’s a great video documentary put together by PEO Soldier to flack the system. It’s in three parts, so I’ll post them throughout the week. But it’s an extraordinarily well done documentary and tells both the story of this unit’s deployment and the good and bad of the Land Warrior system.
Keep Up The Fire — Part 1 of 3 from PEO Soldier on Vimeo.
– Christian
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Keep Up The Fire, Manchus.
It’s a crock of s**t, all you see are commissioned officers and senior non-comms. The only troops you see are the ones that had something positive about it. I want to hear for the regular Joes, the boots who go face to face with the enemy. I’ve seen a lot of this new tech junk that was pumped up and was nothing more excess weight that needed to be thrown away. For me, it was more important to get my boys in, then out in one piece with the mission completed, without having to put up with a bunch that gets in the way.
I’m very familiar with Land Warrior and the mission of 4/9 IN. The real time SA and combat ID/position location capability the LW provides is worth every one of the 10 pounds it weighs.
Don’t listen to old farts like Sarge, who still want to carry around M16s, metal canteens, L-shaped flashlights, and get lost in the woods with their lensatic compass…hey Sarge its 2009 not 1969!