The US Army hired private firms to improve the public image of a processor meant to detect buried explosives used by soldiers in Afghanistan who have widely criticized its working capabilities.
An internal company email obtained by The Washington Times states that the contractor, BRTRC, will try to improve the image of the poorly performing anti-IED processor, which soldiers and Congress have criticized harshly.
The Army denied the contractor was hired as a public relations stunt for a device that endangers US soldiers. “It would be incorrect to say the purpose of the contract is to ‘promote’ DCGS,” the Army statement said.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), has claims the Army has tried to keep alternative devices that work better from the troops in order to protect the continued funding of the defense corporation that builds the faulty ones.
“The decision to hire a strategic communications professional to manage a single program because it’s receiving unwanted attention is a serious misuse of tax dollars,” said Mr. Hunter. “And it shows that there isn’t any real interest in fixing the problem of why soldiers in Afghanistan aren’t getting resources they are urgently requesting.”
The US of America is a military/welfare state, a proxy of Israel and the Rothchilds. If one feels obligated to serve their country then they have to expect to give an arm and a leg. If one is forced to comply and give their lives to an invisible enemy that is different. I would expect that every journalist can see this and unveil the difference. One must also understand that military hardware is sold like Merck pharmaceuticals: with no respect for a poor quality product.
The whole U.S. strategy in Afghanistan of forcing U.S. soldiers to repeatedly walk the same mined roads with dismounted patrols obviously exposes them to unnecessary death and horrific wounds.
The whole war has no strategic purpose, no goals, no sanity. Only the capitalist contractors and their Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force benefactors profit from the Afghan war.
And so it is up to critics of this war to be aware that the soldiers are the victims of this capitalist insanity. The soldiers are in fact front line witnesses and victims and therefore credible voices of the truth. As in Vietnam, Afghan war opponents must partner with the veterans to stop this war.
Driving down the mined roads in MRAPs was a)too expensive and b) interfered with winning hearts and minds, I'd guess
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Besides, the IEDs are easier to detect with that basic tool, the eye, without two inches of armored glass and twenty feet of space in between.
Is this device related to the infamous 'dowzing rod'-based British design sold at grossly inflated prices to the Iraqi government to help detect VIEDs? It looks good and doesn't work either.