(AFJ) on page 18 reports we are going to spend more than last years $36.5 BILLION occupying Afghanistan with 34000 US troops in 2008, yet Taliban violence is rising. This despite the ill-conceived, planned influx of more US troops (60000+ total) which is sure to cause the locals to reject us as ...
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Before envy struck, the U.S. Army Airborne parachute low-velocity airdropped (LVAD) M551 Sheridan Light Tanks and M113 Gavin Armored Personnel Carriers in the 3rd Battalion, 73rd Armored Regiment as a part of the 82nd Airborne Division in the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Th...
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attention away from the failures of their nest-egg. Indeed, many of the arguments they cite are the prevailing notions of what the M113 can and cannot do. After doing a bit of research on the M113, however, I’ve found virtually all of these claims to be totally false. In fact, some of them seem ...
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Compare the C-27J to the inefficiency of the V-22!--A C-27J can carry a lightweight, full-sized M113 or Mini-Gavin with band tracks or ARIS SPA waterjets and a 9-man infantry squad and airland them into any smooth 2, 000 land surface or have them splash off the rear ramp into the water if equippe...
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Exclusive video documentary shows what its like to be a Paratrooper in a Delta Weapons Company to include a "ruckcam" view of what its like to static-line parachute jump from a military aircraft. The U.S. Army's Airborne and Air Assault Light Infantry Battalions only have heavy direct-firepower o...
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The Afghan National Army (ANA) with M113 Gavin light armored tracks capable of unpredictable cross-country fire & maneuver is now better equipped than the U.S. Army's roughly 20 light brigades and the entire USMC that foot-slogs with 100 pounds of "lightweight" equipment when not getting blown up...
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This may be our most important video--and its not even a video! http://www.combatreform.com/AFJImay19...http://www.combatreform.com/AFJIM113A...http://www.combatreform.com/AFJIM113A...http://www.combatreform.com/AFJIM113A...Its a slide show of the May 1992, Armed Forces Journal magazine which on ...
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