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To: tejek who wrote (166387)	3/31/2003 6:19:14 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583389

RE:"Whole battalions were short of food and water." This just trumped up by the armchair generals running the media outlets. The desert temps are up to 100 now? Better check the weather channel. weather.com Looks like 78 in Bagdad

To: tejek who wrote (166387)	3/31/2003 6:32:52 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583389

Whole battalions were short of food and water. It seems to me if you want your army to fight This is not consistent with the news reports I've heard. you micromanage the food and water to make sure they have enough of both A competent White House/DOS is not going to micromanage ANYTHING. The White House's micromanagement of military affairs is what brought us Black Hawk Down. The military is much too large for anyone to micromangage it. Rumsfeld has to be able to delegate tens, maybe hundreds, of levels down an organization chart. I suspect no significant ground war has ever been conducted where minor materiel shortages weren't a problem at times. However, I've heard nothing about shortages in the last several days; I can envision that shortages might have been a problem during the sand storm, which is totally understandable. Basically, I think your argument sucks. As of this today, I haven't heard any military person refer to the current war plan as anything other than brilliant.

To: tejek who wrote (166387)	4/1/2003 7:57:00 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583389

Ted Re....It wasn't one or two or three....those are the ones who got interviewed. Whole battalions were short of food and water. Generals, and especially Rummy don't micromanage logistics. They have other people who do that. As for the battalian level, I only saw one reporter say they were down to 1 mre packet per day. That same night, several others reported 2 MRE daily. And they said 2 was the normal daily intake. As far as water, the army just dug a artisian well, up by the troops, so they don't have to transport that, and they have opened at least 10 airfields in the country, to fly in supplies. So if there was a problem, with supplies, it was temporary.