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 "CNN story on Army Stryker Video," Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN, April 29, 2005.(You need Windows Media Player to watch this video) watch this video » POGO Alert - Statement on the Army's New Stryker Video, April 21, 2005. Army Video on the Stryker, April 2005. (You need Quicktime to watch this video) watch this video » Study Faults Army Vehicle; Use of Transport in Iraq Puts Troops at Risk, Internal Report Says. Washington Post story, March 31, 2005.The Army has deployed a new troop transport vehicle in Iraq with many defects, putting troops there at unexpected risk from rocket-propelled grenades and raising questions about the vehicle's development and $11 billion cost, according to a detailed critique in a classified Army study obtained by The Washington Post. POGO Alert - Leaked Report: Stryker Armored Vehicle. An internal Army report reveals that the Stryker Interim Armored Vehicle has been only 50 percent effective overall against Rocket Propelled Grenades during combat in Iraq. March 31, 2005. Stryker Armored Vehicle. Director, Operational Test and Evaluation FY 2004 Annual Report. Inital Impressions Report; Operations In Mosul, Iraq. Stryker Brigrade Combat Team 1, 3rd Brigrade, 2nd Infantry. Center For Army Lessons Learned. December 21, 2004. "Stryker Problems Highlight Testing Shortfalls," by POGO's Eric Miller, Sr. Defense Investigator, Defense News, November 1, 2004.Despite a critical need to get more armored vehicles to soldiers engaged in the toughest guerrilla clashes in Iraq, the U.S. Army last year chose instead to deploy its first Stryker armored vehicle brigade to one of the country's more relatively calm, remote regions. Stryker Armored Vehicle portion of the Pentagon's Department of Operational Test and Evaluation 2003 Annual Report. The Pentagon used to make this report publicly available on the web, but is no longer doing so. POGO has scanned in the reports of eleven of the biggest or most troubled systems. April 16, 2004. POGO Alert - POGO calls for investigation into Stryker revolving door and rush to deploy in Iraq. Renewed debate on the revolving door has brought attention to the hiring of a top Army general by General Dynamics only 11 months before the defense contractor was awarded a $4 billion contract to build the Stryker armored vehicle. The first Stryker brigade was recently deployed in Iraq's Sunni Triangle despite warnings by the Pentagon's top tester that the wheeled vehicle is vulnerable to rocket propelled grenades. January 6, 2004.
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