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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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Camp Arifjan, Kuwait - Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently paid a visit to Kuwait to view the large stock of Mine Resistance Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles leftover from the drawdown in Iraq. The Department of Defense purchased over 200,000 MRAPs in response to the threat of roadside bombs during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. While they significantly reduced the amount of deaths and injuries sustained by service members, the MRAPs now pose a new problem - what the hell is the DoD going to do with them?
Secretary Panetta sought to answer this question as best he could while visiting 3rd Army Headquarters at Camp Arifjan.
“You see, the MRAPs were great for Iraq. But, they’re too top heavy for Afghanistan. That’s why we fielded the MATV there. It’s a great mixture of mobility and armor against IEDs. The problem is, now we have, like 200,000 of these fucking things, and I really don’t know what the fuck to do with them. Seriously, they’re goddamn useless now."
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