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Bureaucracy * USA - Lack of MRAPs Cost Marine Lives
Study
Washington,DC,USA -AP, by RICHARD LARDNER -16 Feb 2008: -- 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... The study, written by a civilian Marine Corps official and obtained by The Associated Press, accuses the service of "gross mismanagement" that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks for more than two years... (Photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP: A Category I mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle, is driven on a test course during a media demonstration at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in this Aug. 24, 2007 file photo)
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