Equipment For Added Troops Is  Lacking
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Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Marine Corps, which are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply the extra forces, U.S. officials said.
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All the gear, no idea The UK arms industry came in for a shoeing from the parliamentary defence committee yesterday, as MPs criticised continuing cost escalations in several major kit projects for the British forces. The soaring bills were seen as especially worrying in light of the fact that the services are struggling to recruit and retain personnel, a situation not helped by chronic low pay and benefits.â¦
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Official says plans to send 3,300 troops to halt the violence are inadequate and more than twice that number is needed to restore calm.
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At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists have been  court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own  mission to Iraq.
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An Army official said his command has not had enough trained people to properly oversee the giant logistical contract for food, housing and other services in Iraq and Kuwait.
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At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own unit's mission to Iraq.
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The army admits an error caused delays in getting vital equipment to Afghanistan, arriving after a soldier died.
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BERLIN - NATO is backing away from establishing a combat force that would be capable of moving rapidly into conflict areas because it lacks the money, the troops and the equipment, officials said yesterday.
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There are not enough members of the armed forces to meet the demands of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, MPs say.
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There are too few British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do not have all the equipment they need, increasing the risk they may fail in their missions there, a parliamentary committee report due out Wednesday will warn, The Guardian said.
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Army officials say they may be forced to make greater use of the National Guard to provide enough troops for overseas deployments.
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BASRA CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE, Iraq The British soldiers spent more than an hour drilling the Iraqi army recruits in how to use key equipment needed to defend Basra from deadly mobs: body-size shields and menacing red batons.
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Our position is: US troops need equipment redesigned from the ground up for fighting a new kind of warfare. Spc. Thomas Wilson was blunt with Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld this week during an open forum involving US troops in Iraq.
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Despite some progress, armor for vehicles and parts for repairs still fall short, leaders say. BY JOHN HENDREN AND MARK MAZZETTI. WASHINGTON - Prewar forecasts that failed to account for a lengthy and bloody
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Reacting to criticism that the United States has not provided the right equipment to Iraqi security forces, the Multi-National Command in Baghdad has been seeking a contractor to put armor on 1,300 American-made SUVs and pickup trucks used by the Iraqi National Police.
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At an Army tech conference, companies show off new machines that do the work of flesh-and-blood soldiers. One sports machine guns to hunt down enemies. Another is an unmanned ambulance to take the wounded off the battlefield. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida.
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Technology which could help produce a nuclear bomb has gone missing in Iraq since the invasion, the UN warns.