* Data stolen from 80% of troops
* Upgrades for Minutemen
* Spec Ops bulk up
* Sterilizers to go
* Online militant key to Toronto terror
* Electromagnetic “sixth sense“
* Pentagon = “Enron on the Potomac“
* Carbon neutral America, $200 billion?
* Dig this RC plane
* Iraq’s Predator squadron: 20 planes, 2250 hours/month
* “Death blow” to NSA suit?
(Big ups: EG, TP, CP)
Good Morning Folks,
I starting to wonder why this V.A. Data “problem” is not being called what is is a “Terrorists Act”.
It should be clear by now that this house breaking was not random event nor was this the work of some bungling first story guy.
The stealing of infortmation of all who have put on the uniform, comment by VFW National Commander, is a Natioal Security Issue.
With the events from Canada this past week and Flash drives with Secret information for sale on the streets of Kobal, The L.A. Times, and this thieft one has to ask, “Are they taking the GWOT seriously in Washington?”
It appears they are not. The firing of a few Agency heads and senior bueacrats in Washingtion is long over due.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner
any one else see tonights CBS news? Seems complaints about the M-16 and it’s 5.2 round are getting our teoops killed.
The short of it is that it has all most no stopping power. One case in point was told of an insurgent high on drugs getting shot five times with the 5.2 and still managing to kill two marians and wound seven others before he was finally put down for good with a colt 45 model 1911 of all things? One defender of the 5.2 said, “You can carry 300 rounds and not the mere 100 rounds of the 7.6″ Just how much more would 300 rounds of 7.6 weigh as compared to 5.2? and would this extra weight matter if your not marching twenty miles a day?
Were is a M14 when you need it? Or for that matter are there any BAR’s or thonpson sub-machine guns in storage some were?
The CBS News report mentioned by davids is at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/07/cbsnews_investigates/main1692346.shtml . Only without references to 5.2 and 7.6″ bullets.
Mostly seems like the same information that has been around for a while now, though this is the first time I’ve seen references to reports from Picatinny that say the 5.56mm round has the lowest lethality of all the rounds tested.
In any event, I’ve still not heard a convincing explanation for both the reports of the low lethality of the round and the “small bullet big hole” stories from the Vietnam era, and why any explanation for the latter can’t be used to fix the issue of the former. I’d like someone to at least try to answer that before we go and change the hundreds of thousands of service rifles in use across the US military to rechamber for a new round.
Good Evening Folks,
Let me try this again my first post disappeared, the grimlins are back out. You just gotta love the DoD who monitirs this site. Your doing a good job fellows/gals. Tax payer money well spent.
I saw the piece on CBS this evening on the 5.56mm round, it is old news, In Vietnam foutry years I encountered the same problems. In short the 5.56 bullet at either 55gr. or the new improved 62gr. version at less the 50 meters won’t stop people. That is when of course the M-16/M-4’s that fire this round work.
There is an answer to this sisuation out there, it is the 6.8mm Remington SPC bullet. This round has been tested in both Afghanistan and Iraq by Spec. Ops. soldiers and got glowing reviews. If it is so godd you may ask why are not our troops using it?
Well the answer is the same old incestious relationship between the Pentagon and the Defense Industry. The M-16 and the 5.56mm bullet are a gravy train for Colt and the ammo manufactures who hire retire Generals and Admirals after the Pentagon day are over.
Along with the M-8 weapons system that was designed to replace the M-16/M-4’s in 2004 the 6.8mm round died in the halls of the Pentagon.
One of the problems with the 6.8mm SPC round was that it was independantly developed by a former SF Sgt. who saw first hand in Afghanistan in 2001 that the 5.56mm bullet was ineffective. The Generals just could let some enlisted guy up stage their Retirement payouts.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner