COL CUSTER WE ARE OUT OF AMMO
Interesting to see that DoD has finally admitted that the one little ammo plant in Independence, Missouri can't produce enough small arms with three shifts for all of DoD. Some of us have known since April of 2003 that their was a problem and if you look at the GAO documents they've known about it for longer then that. Just lately a soldier in Walter Reed Army Hospital was complaining about going out on operations without a full basic load.
Generals by in large don't get the intricacies of ammunition resupply at the strategic level. I remember a Field Artillery School Commandant who was singing high praises of the rate of fire for the then newly proposed Crusader 155mm. It was to have a very high rate of fire capability. I asked him if they were going to upgrade the ammo resupply capability ( to include production) so it could shoot that fast? His face went blank. I was talking logistics and that made his head hurt. I guess his theory was if we build it, they will come. Who knows what they really think. One thing they apparently didn't think about, or if they did they didn't talk out loud, was ammo for a protracted conflict.
