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Ammo Shortage ???
William81
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Did anyone else see the piece on a shortage of .223 Ammo for our troops. I only caught the tail end of it. It was on 2 or 3 days ago on CNN or Fox.
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psalms 16
Old 06 beat my reply so there is a shortage?
Rugster
"Toujours Pret"
psalms 16
I dont know how there could be a shortage of it, unless they mean they are having a difficult time maintaining the level of surplus they want to have, and I still dont see how thats possible. We fire more rounds in training in one day on one range than what is fired in hostilities in, more than likely, a month. Thats no bullcrap either. Line up 50 shooters per relay, 6 relays, on just one range, and give each of them 45 rounds to fire. If we fire more than 13,500 rounds per month, in the current combat situation, I'd be surprised to find that out, since there would be a lot more dead enemy lying around, at least if the Marines were doing the shooting.[;)]
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"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" -Thomas Paine
If the people have become so apathetic that they will not vote out all the liberal scum (republican and democrat alike), the only solution is Constitutional Convention II the sequel. Let's get it right this time.
"Never argue with an idiot.... They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."
"I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem."
Ryan
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"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" -Thomas Paine
If the people have become so apathetic that they will not vote out all the liberal scum (republican and democrat alike), the only solution is Constitutional Convention II the sequel. Let's get it right this time.
......West Point-trained Lt. Col. Carlson - coincidentally the daughter of retired Col. Jerry Carlson, who served with great distinction alongside of me in Korea and Vietnam - said that our Lake City ammo plant in Missouri "has gone to three shifts."
Sources say that Lake City - both the largest Army ammo facility in the world and the producer of all the Pentagon's small-arms ammo - has reached "capacity" and "units in the field still don't have the right stuff to do the job."
A regular Army major just back from Iraq says: "President Bush told the armed forces, `Help is on the way.' But in Iraq and now in the training business, I've seen very little help, but a whole lot of pork."
You'd think that our Congress would have the good sense to read the coffee grains and demand that we reopen other ammo plants to prepare for a long, dangerous and most critical global war in which our very way of life is at stake.
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"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" -Thomas Paine
If the people have become so apathetic that they will not vote out all the liberal scum (republican and democrat alike), the only solution is Constitutional Convention II the sequel. Let's get it right this time.
"Never argue with an idiot.... They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."
"I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem."
Ryan
Cool your jets bud, I never stated anything about MO folks being uneducated hicks. I simply stated what I stated, and infered nothing.
I have a very good friend that lives near Ft. Leonard Wood, who would likely agree with my assessment, and so would my father, who lives about 1.5 hrs. from Ft. Wood also. I dont think MO folks are mostly lacking higher education, like myself, I KNOW THIS. All you need to do is take a drive through the state and the evidence is on the wall. For people like the ones that live in MO, any job is welcome, just as it is in my home state. MO is a poor state, but a lot of money doesnt mean much to a lot of people there. I actually agree with that.
I have a real feeling of contempt for the way Skelton has screwed with the military in placing the schools all in one location. I also suspect he has been quite happy learning that the Lake City plant is overwhelmed with orders for ammo.
All of these things were probably done under the guise of cutting costs, well, I dont know how much money it is supposedly saving us, but the end results are not worth any savings, and judging from the current deficit, I'm thinking it failed to save us much, along with a lot of other 'great' ideas.