Lockheed Gets Big Bucks to Prep Soldiers for HOME

[decoy409]

One of the featured articles in the news. Thought it deserved it's own post. And I added it as well to The DECOY 409 POST.

Quote: Lockheed Gets Big Bucks to Prep Soldiers for Urban War

By the end of the year, the U.S. Army will leave Iraq. But Iraq isn’t going to leave the U.S. Army.

American soldiers spent seven years patrolling the urban neighborhoods of Iraq; its troops battled insurgents there block-by-block and house-by-house. Now that the Army is getting out of Iraq, it wants to make sure its urban combat skills don’t wither away. So it today it gave Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $287 million to build Urban Operations Training Systems — essentially, giant simulation facilities and modules to help soldiers get ready for life in the big, bad city.

Versions of those training systems can be as simple as shipping containers tricked out to resemble multi-story houses and arranged in village formations, so soldiers can practice how to seize a building without causing needless damage. The Army’s got an entire 1000-acre facility in Indiana it uses to train soldiers in urban combat.

The contract will include structures like those, which are known as Mobile Military Operations on Urban Terrain systems, or Mobile MOUTs. Lockheed says it’ll help soldiers drill on everything “from traditional war fighting tactics, to nation-building, to overseas contingency operations.” Overseas contingency operations is the new bureaucratic and budgetary term for what we used to call “wars.”


A statement from the company heralding the deal said that the new training systems were likely to include measures to simulate homemade bombs, an indicator that the Army doesn’t think the threat from the signature weapon of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is likely to diminish. That in turn has implications for other stuff the Army wants to buy — especially the new Ground Combat Vehicle, the service’s next-generation transporter. The Army and the Marine Corps have faced criticism for buying so many armored Humvees and Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, on the assumption that they’ll rot in the motor pool if troops don’t have to roll through terrain laced with homemade bombs in the future. That may not be a chance the Army wants to take.

Training isn’t destiny, and just because the Army wants to keep urban combat in its toolkit doesn’t mean it’s looking to go stomping through any foreign capitals. One of the Army’s biggest internal criticisms after finding itself mired unexpectedly in Iraq was that its post-Vietnam officers deliberately unlearned how to fight insurgents. Look for the exact opposite to happen here: Army gadflies like Col. Gian Gentile of West Point warn that the Army’s assuming that unpredictable future land wars are going to look too much like today’s counterinsurgencies.

A different aspect to the urban-training scenario offered by Lockheed: “live, virtual and constructive mission domains,” the statement says. Whether that means, in part, videogame-based training remains to be seen. But at the Army’s recent annual conference in D.C., the service was showing off a sophisticated first-person-shooter modeled on eastern Afghanistan’s rugged, mountainous terrain. If Call of Duty can rig up an urban-warfare videogame, presumably one of the world’s largest defense companies can too.

[decoy409]

Yes you Military is coming home and many have already been home lending a helping hand. But nothing like you will be experiancing!

Go Market! Go! Profit Up!

[decoy409]

You people best start waking up!

[decoy409]

Keep this up top! Why things are coming together with all the preaching I have been doing!

[jarhead1976]

Have you seen Detroit's inner city.. they could just go there! It is always safer in the service than it is on the streets!

[decoy409]

In the last months of the Bush administration, prior to the
November 2008 presidential elections, the Department of Defense ordered the
recall of the 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade Combat Team from Iraq. The relocation
of a combat unit from the war theater to domestic front is an integral part of
the Homeland Security agenda. The BCT was assigned to assist in law enforcement
activities within the US.

The BCT combat unit was attached to US Army North, the Army's
component of US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). The 1st BCT and other combat
units would be called upon to perform specific military functions in the case of
civil unrest:

The 1st BCT's soldiers also will learn how to use "the first
ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded," 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal
weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing
them.

Under the proposed withdrawal of US forces from Iraq under the
Obama administration, one expects that other combat units will be brought home
from the war theater and reassigned in the United States.

The evolving national security scenario is characterized by a
mesh of civilian and military institutions:

-Army combat units working with civilian law enforcement, with
the stated mission to curb "social unrest".

[decoy409]

And the rest enjoy there day as well. Enough said here.

[decoy409]

And why would this plan be in effect if all is going so well here at home?

[decoy409]

Nobody has any answers hey? No answers but plenty of lip if anything. Like the other going, we can run all day and the true light shows as to this is exactly as others will be.
So instead of useless malicious arguments and not debate, time for a cup of java.

[decoy409]

Yep, it's no dirty 'C' word. Was known in advance!

[djrick]

WASHINGTON — Seven retired admirals and generals hired by the military as consultants will end their advisory roles rather than comply with new regulations requiring them to divulge outside income to avoid a conflict of interest.

The former officers are among 158 Pentagon retirees known as "senior mentors" who have been identified in USA TODAY stories as getting as much as $440 an hour to offer advice on war plans and weapons systems.

A USA TODAY investigation found that 80% of the mentors had financial ties to defense contractors that they were not required to reveal to the public.

www.usatoday.com/news/military/2011-01-20-1Amentors20_ST_N.htm

[decoy409]

That's a good one dj!

[decoy409]

Like him, don't like him is not the point. Watch the clip. And when you do your homework you will see that over the course of the past several years across your nation these have been going on left and right.

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Some of you sillies are going to be looking every bit as and more! Best start schooling up if you have no idea.

[decoy409]

Yes after you have enjoyed the above, have a look at Pres. Directive 51 if you have not done so. As 3 crisis brings it to life. And guess what?

Where oh where do I spend those debt ridden fiat notes???