GEN.GORDON R. SULLIVAN, USA RET. President, AUSA Letters LT.GEN.THEODORE G. STROUP JR., USA RET. Vice President, Education, AUSA Procurement Challenges been able to afford to maintain or gear MARY BLAKE FRENCH Editor in Chief I Richard Hart Sinnreich’s typically up to build what we’ve asked for. LARRY MOFFI Managing Editor logical and readable February “Front & Those less capable companies have ei- PAUL W. BARTELS Art Director Center” article, “Rebuilding America’s ther gone out of business, merged DENNIS STEELE Senior Staff Writer Eroding Defense Industrial Base,” hits with the big guys or refrained from TONI EUGENE Associate Editor JOSEPH L. BRODERICK Production Artist many of the problems facing the tech- bidding on programs that they can’t TENLEY WADSWORTH Assistant Editor nical production side of procurement. produce. So we’ve arrived at a point SARA HOV Assistant Editor Another significant problem relates of almost sole-source production ca- JEREMY DOW Editorial Assistant to the increasing complexity of re- pability for some classes of materiel. Contributing Editors quired new military materiel. Many The solutions are both economical GEN.FREDERICK J. KROESEN, USA RET.; years ago, I twisted a common phrase, infusion, which is implicit in Sinn- MAJ.GEN.EDWARD B. ATKESON, USA RET.; concluding that “invention is the moth- reich’s article, and realistic require- AND SCOTT R. GOURLEY er of necessity.” That was based on wit- ments processes. We need to do both, LT.GEN.THOMAS G. RHAME, USA RET. nessing the successful “sales pitch” and each is difficult to accomplish. Vice President, Finance and approach of some defense industry COL.ROGER MICKELSON, USA RET. Administration, AUSA marketeers who would wow the brass Albuquerque, N.M. with a new, advanced, high-tech, faster, JAMES E. 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March 2009 I ARMY 3 mility necessary to interact produc- ARMY Magazine welcomes letters tively and effectively with those who to the editor. Short letters are more have, in fact, significantly more com- likely to be published, and all let- bat experience than most of us. This ters may be edited for reasons of has been their life for decades, on style, accuracy or space limita- their own ground, and they certainly tions. Letters should be typewrit- understand the mentality of the en- ten and double-spaced. All letters emy better than we do. must include the writer’s full name, address and home telephone num- From experience, I assure you that ber. The volume of letters we re- we can learn a tremendous amount ceive makes individual acknowl- from our perhaps not so technologi- edgment impossible. Please send cally advanced counterparts in the letters to The Editor, ARMY Maga- Afghan army, and we must truly be- zine, AUSA, 2425 Wilson Blvd., Ar- lieve that we can learn from them. Pa- lington, VA 22201. Letters may also tronizing, hollow gestures are quickly be faxed to (703) 841-3505 or sent transparent and, understandably, in- via e-mail to [email protected]. sulting and detrimental to any progress we have made building relationships hardened and tactically superior sol- and operating as we must: as trusted diers and officers among the ranks of partners who can help facilitate an

our Afghan partners in Operation En- Afghan solution to Afghan problems. Army

during Freedom, at least, and we can- Certainly, this was a rather minute U.S. not be so shortsighted as to think that piece of a larger, masterful essay, but I Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard our Afghan partners (or Taliban, insur- worry that it betrays a perspective that gent and terrorist adversaries) are nec- plagues many of our soldiers. We have Lt. Gen. Harry Kinnard essarily less mentally agile, flexible, to make sure that every young officer I The death of Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. battle hardened or tactically superior in and noncommissioned officer is in- Kinnard, U.S. Army retired, on Janu- their own environments where it matters. stilled with genuine humility along ary 5, revived memories of that great Believing that, somehow, we are su- these lines and is looking to these part- soldier. As an ardent student of mili- perior in every way as the observation ners to learn everything he or she can. tary history, I had placed him high on suggests—that we know more about LT. COL. EDWARD C. LEDFORD my list of soldiers to emulate. I never fighting the hard fight in the enemy’s Director, Department of Aviation considered that I would have the op- own territory—risks leadership that Systems Training portunity to meet him. believes itself invincible, infallible and U.S. Army Aviation Logistics School In September 1965, the 1st Brigade, characterized by anything but the hu- Fort Eustis, Va. 101st Airborne Division, was sent to An Khe, Republic of Vietnam, to se- cure the area for the newly deployed 1st Cavalry Division. My rifle platoon in Company B, 1/327th Infantry, was pulled out of the field to serve as the honor guard for Gen. Kinnard’s ar- rival. He was 50 then and the best- looking soldier I had ever seen. Fol- lowing the ceremony, Gen. Kinnard tapped the patch on his right shoulder and said to me: “I earned the Scream- ing Eagle on another battlefield. I know it will always mean as much to you as it has to me.” My spirits soared. In 1968, I returned to the 101st proudly wearing the Screaming Eagle on both shoulders. In the spring of 1969 my rifle company, Company D, 2/506th Infantry, was detailed to se- cure Fire Support Base , west “Ragnar is struggling with the concept. of Hue. It was a sprawling fire base Explain weekend warrior to him again.” with several artillery batteries. But

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