{"id":1441,"date":"2006-09-07T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2006-12-09T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T04:06:44","slug":"this-is-just-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"This Is Just Shameful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14686871\/\">MSNBC: Army shuns system to combat RPG&#8217;s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On &#8220;Countdown&#8221; tonight, there was a report of some technology that would be almost 100% effective against rocket-propelled grenade attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq.  It&#8217;s developed by an Israeli company (I think the technology is called Trophy?) and Pentagon tests have shown its effectiveness.  (I&#8217;ve googled a link and can&#8217;t find one to the story.  Hopefully MSNBC will have one tomorrow?)<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230; the US Army is declining it because it gave a contract to Raytheon who promises to have similar technology available by 2011.<\/p>\n<p>OK&#8230; maybe I&#8217;m just &#8220;morally confused&#8221; here but&#8230; if the technology is available now and can prevent a large amount of loss of life, why the heck does it matter who makes it?!?!?!?!?  In case the Army hasn&#8217;t noticed (and I sometimes wonder if they have), there&#8217;s a war going on and soldiers are being killed by RPG&#8217;s fired at vehicles and tanks.  It is simply shameful that the Army cares more about making some company happy than it does about its soldiers on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I am so ashamed of my country&#8217;s military leaders at the moment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC: Army shuns system to combat RPG&#8217;s. On &#8220;Countdown&#8221; tonight, there was a report of some technology that would be almost 100% effective against rocket-propelled grenade attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq. It&#8217;s developed by an Israeli company (I think the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-nf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}