Why did we not know this 5 years ago? I mean, why would we go out and buy 18 of these if we knew this?
Norman D. Dicks: “Why did we not know this 5 years ago? I mean, why would we go out and buy 18 of these if we knew this?”
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Dicks questions the lack of foresight in military procurement decisions.
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