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Article: Scarcity of armored vehicles is worse than initially thought.
- Article from:
- The Star (Amman, Jordan)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2007
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By David Wood WASHINGTON--After nearly four years of war in Iraq, the Pentagon's effort to protect its troops against roadside bombs is in disarray, with soldiers and Marines having to swap access to scarce armored vehicles and the military unsure whether it has the money or industrial capacity to produce the safe vehicles it says the troops need. On Jan. 10, The Baltimore Sun reported that most of the 21,500 troops President Bush has ordered to Iraq as reinforcements will not have access to specialized blast-resistant armored vehicles because they are in such short supply. But the problem runs deeper than that. In congressional testimony and interviews last week, senior ...