Gates: MRAPs Save 'Thousands' Of Troop Lives -- USA Today
Armored trucks designed to withstand roadside bomb blasts have saved "thousands of lives" and prevented at least as many maimings since being sent to Afghanistan and Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with USA TODAY.
Gates, who retires Thursday, said he pushed to get more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles to the front after a 2007 article in USA TODAY reported that no Marines had been killed in 300 attacks on MRAPs in Iraq.
"Nothing was happening," said Gates, who pushed the Pentagon bureaucracy to speed production of the vehicles.
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My Comment: MRAPs have been a game changer in today's wars .... and has changed how ground warfare is conducted.