Army Training is All in the (Lockheed) Family

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U.S. Army gives L-3 big training contract
Jan 9, 2006, 20:40 GMT

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1074584.php/U.S._Army_gives_L-3_big_training_contract

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- The U.S. Army awarded New York-based L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. a $74.6 million contract to help train fighters in Europe.

The technical and management services division of L-3`s Titan Group will offer simulation, training and exercise support for the 7th Army Training Command, L-3 said Monday.

Under the five-year contract, L-3 Titan Group will provide constructive simulation support to the Army`s eight Battle Command Training Centers in Germany, Italy and other European areas.

L-3 Titan Group will also support, as-needed, battle simulation exercises in areas such as Partnership for Peace, Mission Rehearsals, NATO training and sustainment training of deployed units at remote locations in the European Command Area of Operations.

Retired general Jay Garner, who served briefly as the administrator for postwar Iraq, is the President of SYColeman Corp., which is owned by L-3, one of Lockheed-Martin's communications technology units. http://www.l-3com.com/

L-3 Communications announced that its Government Services, Inc., subsidiary was awarded a four-year contract by the U.S. Army to provide intelligence services to support the work of multi-national forces in Iraq. http://www.nema.org/media/ind/20050714a.cfm

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1. L3 is independent, not a Lockheed subsidiary. nt

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4. love the nitpicking. how about partners? key members of the LM team?

sub-contractor?

"In establishing the company, several advanced electronics businesses were purchased that were part of the Lockheed Martin, Loral Corporation merger that occurred in 1996. Also purchased from Lockheed Martin was a division located in Camden, NJ that had been part of GE."

http://www.l-3com.com/about_l3/history/

All in the family.

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5. Jay 'Reconstruction' Garner's link to L-3. Just a crony cleaning up

Jay Garner may be a "retired general" but he is far from retired as a defense contractor and political player. He is in fact a classic Bush choice for a juicy position. He's a hawkish aging ex-general and a leftover from the Reagan and Bush Administrations. A good pal of Donald Rumsfeld, Garner was Ronald Reagan's top salesman for the ridiculous boondoggle known as Star Wars. This bloated failure of Pentagon physics is part of the Space and Strategic Defense Command - a thinly veiled scheme to put the US in charge of the planet via space-based weaponry. Garner was also assistant deputy chief of staff during the 1991 Gulf War, and directed the Patriot anti-missile system scheme. This quote from a newspaper article made me think of Ken Lay - remember how one of his big covers was his high-profile charity work? Giving thousands to charity while divesting citizens of billions in retirement savings? "His admirers describe him as compassionate and people-oriented, and his role in the resettlement of Kurdish refugees to northern Iraq following the Gulf War has been emphasized." Yeah, I bet they've been emphasized! Just like Ken Lay's donations to cancer and college funds!

Gardner is president of SY Coleman (formerly SY Technology), a division of defense contractor L-3 Communications specializing in missile- defense systems. The division was a Southern California missile-defense contractor, SY Technology, until L-3 acquired it last year for $48 million. Garner, with virtually no private-sector experience, was named president of that firm. That same "retired military guy as figurehead" bit is popular among the masters of war. For example, Admiral William Crowe, Jr. was named as one of the heads and co-owners of BioPort, the company that landed the contract to manufacture all of the anthrax vaccine - though Crowe never put up a dime of his own money, as far as anyone has been able to determine. BioPort cleaned up with the Iraq war, providing vaccine for all those thousands of troops.

http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3799/index.php

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2. dang

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3. no reason to conclude the Old Boys' network isn't running things

just that the linkages are covert, or at least indirect or circuitous, not overt.