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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="TotoJuan" data-source="post: 273397" data-attributes="member: 283">No se si esto va acá, pero es un dato interesante, frio y calculado, pero interesante, de cuanto valua el Penatgono a sus hombres. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-07-15-ied-losses-usat_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-07-15-ied-losses-usat_N.htm</a>Del Diario USA Today (algo asi como el Popular de acá, mezcla con Cronica y Clarin). The Pentagon's reluctance to get MRAPs to Iraq sooner has been costly by many measures.The cost can be counted in lives lost: the 1,500 troops killed by IEDs account for more than 50% of all combat deaths. The actual percentage may be higher, because, with few exceptions, the Marines do not announce the specific cause of a serviceman's death. In purely dollars and cents terms, each casualty costs the Pentagon at least $500,000, according to Lt. Col. Roy McGriff III, who prepared a study of MRAPs to fulfill degree requirements at the School of Advanced Warfighting at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Va. McGriff, who wrote an urgent request from the field for more vehicles, based his calculations on the Pentagon's own statistics about the costs of caring for casualties and replacing those who died. "Enlisted casualties would average $500,000 while officers, depending upon their military occupation, range from $1 (million) to $2 million each." Y acá no estamos hablandop de pilotos Top Gun, hablamos de tropas de a pie, hasta el grado de Teniente o Capitán.Toda la discusión viewne a cuento de que el presupuesto para los nuevos MRAP (vehiculos con proteción contra minas) no da para equipar a todas las tropas en un tiempo razonable, y hay muchas tropas con HUMVEE´s, como el de la foto.<img src="http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2007/07/15/ied-humvee-firex-large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sigue una foto de uno de los modelos de MRAP en servicio (personalmente lo veo bastante parecicdo a un bicho sudafricano, no tene un aire?)<img src="http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2007/07/19/mrap-xx-large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />TotoJuan</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982