How Do You Buy Stuff For A Canceled Program? Simple - Rename it.

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Ka Ching!






A soldier displays the Land Warrior system, which is being replaced by the Nett Warrior system that centers on a small helmet-mounted computer screen.


Infantry battalion tests Nett Warrior
By Joe Gould - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Oct 30, 2010 10:29:46 EDT

A follow-on to the Land Warrior program, whose deployment was canceled in 2007, the lighter, 5-pound Nett Warrior includes a faster laptop processor and more memory for maps, imagery and graphics. Its battery runs about 24 hours on a four-hour charge.

[Ian David]

1. I would *so* make everyone on the paintball field my bitch with that. n/t

[unhappycamper]

2. Especially if you had a brand spanking new (X)M-25.

Those 40 mm's do some serious damage. I carried one in Cambodia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM-25

[Ian David]

3. Yeah, but they sting a lot more than a paintball marker. n/t

[unhappycamper]

4. Indeed. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

5. Nett loss

while America's infrastructure goes to Hell in a handbasket.