Article: Teamwork tells: a four-year PEO Soldier success story.(COMBAT READINESS)

The war in Iraq has changed how soldiers fight. Just a few years ago, lessons learned by soldiers in the field were not being addressed in a timely manner, and equipment requests were taking months, if not years, to make their way through an unwieldy acquisition process. When it became clear that soldiers urgently needed weapons and other items designed specifically for urban warfare and sniper fire, Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier was among the first to step up to the challenge of applying the most up-to-date technology and delivering gear to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan in as short a timeframe as possible.

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