The MV-22 Osprey deserves a chance for America

Ignore the main steam media and hype to date. The question and answer will be determined in combat in Iraq, and maybe later Afghanistan.

The attention gainer for this citizen was the hit piece in Time magazine about 3 weeks ago. My definition of an hit piece was any article that told you every thing about this machine that was bad, and left out all the good. Maybe that is the way things have always been, but I don’t think so. I suspect the many opponents of this terribly expensive machine had something to do with this seemingly unethical article. Then when I did my own homework, it turns out the author as done similar hit pieces on other rotary wing machines, so maybe this is how this person makes a living. And why is Time using him as an expert? No wonder Time Magazine left me and I left them decades ago.

Back to today. And it has nothing to do with the magazine.

Just in the Iraq war, what do regular Marines think about this machine, especially compared to the CH-46 (Vietnam era) used today? This is the best test, not the D.C test.

Is the Navy/Marine team idea of being a 911 force from the sea valid? Is this idea the wave of the future? Are the Marines launched by the Navy, raiders, or initial entry forces? Can we Navy and Marine types improve on our errors, well intentioned most think? After all, we are Americans in the end.

Bottom line. The time for hype and political battles and carrying the MV-22 into production has already happened. Now let’s see how it does in this small war in Iraq. In the end, what does the basic Marine say?