Friday, May 25, 2007
The Marines fail to deliver
The equipment requested by the troops on the front line. This would not be news except that the Marines has supposedly put in place a process that acted on feedback from the people doing the actual fighting.
Of more than 100 requests from deployed Marine units between February 2006 and February 2007, less than 10 percent have been fulfilled, the document says. It blamed the bureaucracy and a "risk-averse" approach by acquisition officials.Just like in any other large corporation, it sounds great until implementation. The only fly in this ointment is that when they fail, real people die.
Among the items held up were a mine resistant vehicle and a hand-held laser system.
"Process worship cripples operating forces," according to the document. "Civilian middle management lacks technical and operational currency."
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