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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 03:27pm Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12865 of 12879)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

More on Osprey:

7491 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7487.htm

7618-9 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7618.htm

7897 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7893.htm

Osprey - forged maintenance logs. And, to its credit - the Marine Corps did respond.

7909 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7909.htm

At the same time, US institutions, including the United States Marine Corps as it deals with the Osprey matter, are showing how good the United States can be, and offering both good examples, and hope.

7914-6 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7914.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7916.htm

In the Osprey records falsification case, The United States Marine Corps has responded in what appears to be an exemplary fashion to such challenges. People are being held responsible, and a broad, careful investigation is being done.

. . . If the Marine Corps can stand up to unpleasant circumstances in the Osprey case, as it seems to be doing, key technical problems in the missile defense program may be adressable, too.

8071-3 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8069.htm

8076-7 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8275.htm

8338-9 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8338.htm

8623 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8623.htm

9284 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9281.htm

9986 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9981.htm

9988-94 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9988.htm

11180 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11175.htm

11183-8 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11183.htm

Sometimes "the system" cleans up itself, to some degree.

. Eight Marine Officers Are Charged in Osprey False-Records Case by CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/18/national/18OSPR.html

1317 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.FELAbu6FnEp.744045@.f28e622/1675

8647 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.FELAbu6FnEp.744045@.f28e622/10174

8794 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.FELAbu6FnEp.744045@.f28e622/10321

8801 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.FELAbu6FnEp.744045@.f28e622/10328

9976 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.FELAbu6FnEp.744045@.f28e622/11522

Now that there's A Final Push for the Bedeviled, Beloved Osprey By LESLIE WAYNE http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/business/06CHOP.html - responsible legislators - who often fight for sums much smaller than the 48 billion dollars involved here - ought to look carefully at what's involved here.

There are some tough, honest, capable people involved with the Osprey program. It seems likely that the Marines have been watching the contractors involved closely - and watching their own test programs closely. Some very tough tactical and strategic judgements are involved.

If the United States needs this capability - at b this price - ( more than 12 billion has been spent - and 458 Ospreys will cost 48 billion ) then we ought to think and work hard to find ways to make it less precarious.

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