{"id":64794,"date":"2016-03-13T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64794"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T12:47:54","slug":"milley-frustrated-at-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64794","title":{"rendered":"Milley frustrated at Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Fox News<\/a>, the Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley expressed some frustration over the procurement process for a new handgun for the military services. The military is trying to replace the M9 pistol they began buying in the mid-80s to replace the venerable M1911. <\/p>\n

Milley said at the conference that the program is an example of a bureaucratic system that makes it overly complicated to get field equipment to soldiers on the frontlines in a timely matter.<\/p>\n

“We are trying to figure out a way to speed up the acquisition system,” Milley said. “Some of these systems take multiple years, some of them decades to develop.”<\/p>\n

Milley also pointed out many issues and concerns with the MHS, particularly the $17 million price tag.<\/p>\n

“[A] 367-page requirement document. Why?” Milley asked the crowd. “Well, a lawyer says this, and a lawyer says that, and you have to go through this process and that process and you have to have oversight from this that and the other.”<\/p>\n

“The testing — I got a briefing the other day — the testing for this pistol is two years,” he added. “Two years to test technology that we know exists. You give me $17 million on the credit card, I’ll call Cabela\u2019s tonight, and I’ll outfit every soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine with a pistol and I’ll get a discount on it for bulk buys.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lawyers and politicians involved in the process of selecting firearms for the next conflict. Not a particularly timely or useful process. Not a process that either will surrender any aspect of control, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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