This pisses me off.......

[bawanajim]

WASHINGTON (AP)[/b] -- Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes.




Mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks can cost between $450,000 and $1 million.
[/align][/align] [/align][/align][/align]The study was written by a civilian Marine Corps official and obtained by The Associated Press.
It accuses the service of "gross mismanagement" that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks for more than two years.
Cost was a driving factor in the decision to turn down the request for the MRAPs, according to the study.

[Aught Six]

At that price, they're damned if they do, damned if they don't. It seems logical to protect our Marines first, but the public, and the people they elect into the bureaucracy don't always see things that way.

It would be nice to see some people in the Pentagon relieved to set an example, though.