Video of yours' truly giving a speech

[The Brain]

Doesn't sound like a 'murrican... I'm suspicious.. BTW wtf is Army Psyops doing at the John Locke foundation? Is it a front?

Yes. A front of wisdom. 

[Fireblade]

Damn Hans. All you need is a Nazi uniform and we'd get this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs

You should see a doctor to work on your speech impediment though, bro.

[Siege]

Damn Hans. All you need is a Nazi uniform and we'd get this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs

You should see a doctor to work on your speech impediment though, bro.

Hey, not everybody had the head-start of being born in America.

We got the lives we got issued when we were born, and have to do the best we can with it.

What have you done with your life? Have you made a diference?

[Hansmeister]

Damn Hans. All you need is a Nazi uniform and we'd get this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs

You should see a doctor to work on your speech impediment though, bro.

Hey, not everybody had the head-start of being born in America.

We got the lives we got issued when we were born, and have to do the best we can with it.

What have you done with your life? Have you made a diference?

He did manage to get fired from a pet store, so his life hasn't been a complete waste of time.

Btw, I was born in the US, up in Bangor, ME, I just didn't grow up here.

[Siege]

Sadly, no.

The whole thing was a little too rushed for my taste.  It was a last minute invitation and I had been kicking some things around in my head with not nearly enough time to organize it well.  I had far too much information to fit into the alloted time and had to leave far too much out of it and several points were severely shortened or dropped in its entirety.  Particularly, i wanted to talk about the broken procurement system and the new BfSB.

About the procurement system, do you have an opinion about the M110 SAS?
It seems rushed to me. They had to change the trigger assembly, and the suppressor have a life about 20% shorter than the FM says.

I still have to make my mind whether I prefer the M110 or an M14 NM (National Match).

Also, the FCS.
I mean, come on.
Strykers are great for counter-insurgency campaigns, but I wouldn't like to ride in an Stryker against a real APC.
The 25 mike-mike in a Bradley would cut an stryker to pieces, despite the Bradley having less survivility against IEDs.

Both Strykers and Bradleys need to be replaced by a real 21st century APC.

[Viking]

Why not have two vehicles for the two different tasks?

[Razgovory]

Why not have two vehicles for the two different tasks?

That's kinda what they have.

[Hansmeister]

About the procurement system, do you have an opinion about the M110 SAS?
It seems rushed to me. They had to change the trigger assembly, and the suppressor have a life about 20% shorter than the FM says.

I still have to make my mind whether I prefer the M110 or an M14 NM (National Match).

Also, the FCS.
I mean, come on.
Strykers are great for counter-insurgency campaigns, but I wouldn't like to ride in an Stryker against a real APC.
The 25 mike-mike in a Bradley would cut an stryker to pieces, despite the Bradley having less survivility against IEDs.

Both Strykers and Bradleys need to be replaced by a real 21st century APC.

I don't have an opinion on the M110.

While the M1, M2, and M3 need to be replaced the FCS was the wrong approach.  The FCS grew out of the now discredited notion that we could achieve "Total Information Awareness" as the military called it and a small number of lightly armored and networked vehicles could replace all our heavy vehicles.  Not only that, but there were only plans for 15 brigades out of 76 to get FCS, leaving the rest either as light infantry or stuck with old equipment.  On top of that the cost was spiralling out of control because there was too much of an emphasis on developing new, cutting edge technologies instead of cheaper current technology.

[Hansmeister]

What the Army needs to do is first build additional stryker brigades, while developing a new heavy family of armored vehicles to replace the heavy brigades.

By adopting a remote turret we could probably field an MBT weighting in at about 35 tons.  We can cannibalize some of the ground work having been done for the FCS (and the Crusader), but instead of pie-in-the-sky tech stick to stuff that is already developed.  Just design the systems to make it easy to swap out components when new technology becomes available.  Our technological edge is already so large that we don't need to spend a fortune to build a super-tank, we only need an incremental improvement upon our already successful (but worn-out) current generation of vehicles.

[Viking]

Why not have two vehicles for the two different tasks?

That's kinda what they have.

I was sort of hoping for a reply from Siegy on why he wants one vehicle for both tasks.

[katmai]

Btw, I was born in the US, up in Bangor, ME, I just didn't grow up here.

Bangor?

Might as well be a canadian.

[HVC]

Btw, I was born in the US, up in Bangor, ME, I just didn't grow up here.

Bangor?

Might as well be a canadian.

Hey, don't you dare try to pawn himoff on us

[Razgovory]

Why not have two vehicles for the two different tasks?

That's kinda what they have.

I was sort of hoping for a reply from Siegy on why he wants one vehicle for both tasks.

I'm all you have.

[The Brain]

Btw, I was born in the US, up in Bangor, ME, I just didn't grow up here.

Bangor?

Might as well be a canadian.

Can'tadian.

[Grey Fox]

I have new respect for Hans.