From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 07:27:23 PDT
I think Ryan may be wrong - the Brits are in fact very old hands at "this
warfighting thing" - I think we were in Afghanistan long before our chums
across the pond had decided aruguew about wether to abolish slavery or
not...... and we had attacked Iraq before 1920......... That aside, I
think the supply or lack of sutuation was sexed up by the press, I do
understand there was a problem with levels of available air filters for some
of our armour and the press banged on about lack of proper boots - all sells
newspapers and isolated incidents are hyped up to be endemic..
I am told that the deserts of North Africa are different sand to the deserts
of Iraq.
NH
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From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] CANIBALS
At 7:42 AM -0500 6/30/04, Ida Heath wrote:
>Isn't it sad that the United States Military personnel has decided to do
>double work and not allow the supply system to work all these years?
Ida, its been my understanding that the supply
system sometimes doesn't work. It breaks down,
there are stoppages somewhere or units are asked
to do more with less. I see this all the time in
the corporate sector at CNN. We bought a series
of machines that were a great deal at the time. A
few years later the company went TU and closed
down. Now we've got lots of Aable boxes (like a
Sun 420R) that are slowly dying. Deadlined boxes
are stripped for useful components and then the
chassis' tossed.
>From my readings the British supply system broke
down during the latest conflict as they needed
every powerpack available for challenger tanks
and just managed to maintain most of them. Some
tanks however were left behind with crews for
want of key components that could not be
delivered. As I understand it, they stripped from
the entire supply system every powerpack
available from other units not in Iraq to keep
the combat units supplied. The Brits aren't old
hands at this warfighting thing.
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