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Vehicle delay blamed for Marines' deaths
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Feb 16, 2008 12:27pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, February 16, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Honolulu Advertiser
Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes.
The study, written by a civilian Marine Corps official and obtained by The Associated Press, accuses the service of "gross mismanagement" that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks for more than two years.
Cost was a driving factor in the decision to turn down the request for the so-called MRAPs, according to the study. Stateside authorities saw the hulking vehicles, which can cost as much as a $1 million each, as a financial threat to programs aimed at developing lighter vehicles that were years from being fielded. |
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