"I have know way of knowing if AirMECHANIZATION is going to be successful in the U.S., but it's obvious there is a great deal of support within the Army. I received a communication from an aviator in the NG who told me that during ops in Kosovo his unit was told to do a work up on how soon they could be ready to move their unit to Albania. When hostilities ceased it all came to a holt, but the initial review was so bad that the answer as to when they could go would have been never.

With our commitment to every little corner of the world it has to be clear to everyone that more of our Regular Army force will have to be committed, and committed quickly. There will be less tolerance for units that don't have the ability to be transported and sustained cheaply

As for SPR/MOUT, it may well be of secondary in importance to our present goal but if we don't answer questions along those lines, some would say Airmech is not well thought out, and is to narrow in focus. Whatever we discuss in the way of doctrine for Airmech must be thorough, in the sense that it covers all phases Army operations. If Airmech is adopted, the doctrine we envision will change with experience but In my way of thinking we are simply looking at the future. None of these things can truly be separated."

DEPLOYABILITY.

The forgotten "Battlefield Operating System" (BOS).

You have to GET TO THE battlefield to operate, stupid. Its reality, STUPID.

If you cannot get to the battlefield your BOSs are ZERO, NADDA, ZILCH.

If we can't get to the fight, its game over, dude.

And we can't get there because Americans are fat and lazy. They do not know their own individual Soldier weight nor the weight of their own vehicles. Why do we have human pack mules moving at less than 1 mph? Why then can't UNITS deploy? Why don't we know that if we have enough airlift for a 22,000 pound 2.5 ton truck, guess what?

We have enough airlift for a 22,000 pound M113A3 Armored Fighting Vehicle..

What's heavier? a pound of truck or a pound of an armored vehicle?

Here is even more difficult question...

What's heavier, a pound of metal or a pound of feathers?

If you cannot answer these questions correctly you are part of the problem.

You'd be surprised to know how many idiots think a truck's cargo capacity is its total weight!!! We don't know these things because we are taught to be "cannon-fodder" dumb shits for a draftee Army reliving WWII!!!!! So take on "dumb-feces" to one of the adjectives to describe the American amateur Soldier.

Again, why we need a THINKING PROESSIONAL ARMY. You don't get this by yelling and screaming about spit shines, haircuts and throwing bunks and wall lockers over.

Its all because we are not taking war seriously nor see the linkage between the technotactical details and operational art and strategy. We want to fight comfortable, with all our heavy-war-toys-type-conflicts. A war where we can not exert ourselves too much so we can keep our starched uniforms spiffy for Wolf Blitzer of CNN to interview us.

Only in the 82d Airborne is the heat on to live/fight light. They even get too anal retentive about it at times to include an Anti-AFV-we-are-handicapped-with-not enough-airlift-mentality BS. The U.S. Airborne has more airlift available than ANY Airborne Army has had in the history of warfare yet it can't come up with a light AFV.

I could with enough money go buy a used M113 as a military collector and donate it to the damn "All Idiots" at Ft Bragg and then get someone to weld applique armor bolts etc etc.

If there is a WILL there is a WAY.