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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction@Dec 8 2004, 07:28 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...usa_rumsfeld_dc
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Hundreds of soldiers applauded a comrade who complained to Rumsfeld that U.S. troops were being forced to dig up scrap metal to protect their vehicles in Iraq because of a shortage of armored transport.
"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to armor our vehicles ... (scrap) that has already been shot up, dropped, busted, picking the best out of this scrap to put on our vehicles to take into combat?, the soldier said.
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Is that a legitimate complaint?
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Definitely legit.
Just points to the obvious that the USA was unprepared for the violence of the insurgency that appears to have been pre-planned.
Then again, Canadian soldiers were in near panic in Kabul riding around in their little jeeps before they were recently replaced.
Soldiers have been complaining of their lot in life for centuries though. Canadian soldiers were sent into WWI and WWII with shoes that fell apart at the merest hint of water and guns that were basically useless. Complaining is part of a soldier's lot.
Rumsfeld had it coming and good on that soldier for stepping up.
Cowperson