See who gets PRIORITY, readers?!
"Iraq war causes shortage of night vision goggles; Medical helicopter pilots lacking gear" by Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press | June 5, 2008
MADISON, Wis. - The war in Iraq is creating a major - and perhaps deadly - shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the United States....
Hey, who gives a fuck? That's just an AMERICAN PERSON.
We got get these supplies to serve BUSH'S IMPERIAL CONQUESTS!!!!
Air ambulance services that fly sick or injured people to the hospital have been put on waiting lists of a year or more by makers of night vision gear because the US military has contracts that give it priority.
Sig Heil!!!! Still think we aren't a MILITARY STATE, 'murkns?
Hope you don't need a chopper at night to get you to the hospital anytime soon!!!!
"The war in Iraq escalated and the goggles weren't available," said Gary Sizemore, president of the National EMS Pilots Association and a pilot in Perry, Fla. "We were put on a waiting list."
Sizemore estimated that only 25 percent of the 800 or so emergency medical helicopters in the United States have the technology.
Night vision goggles take the tiny amount of light from the stars or the moon and amplify it hundreds of times, enabling the pilot to see in the dark and avoid flying into mountains, wires, or other obstructions. The NTSB said the technology could have prevented 13 of 55 crashes of medical helicopters it analyzed in the 2006 report.
Since that study, five US medical helicopters have crashed in the dark, killing 16 people, according to an NTSB database.
And you STILL think this government gives a SHIT about you, dumb-fuck Amurkns?
Then GET YOUR HEAD out of that SHIT PILE!!!!!!!
An NTSB spokesman said it was not clear from the preliminary reports how many of the helicopters lacked night vision gear. It is not known whether such equipment would have made a difference.
The shortage came into focus last month after one of those crashes - an accident in which a helicopter used by the University of Wisconsin Hospital's Med Flight program slammed into a bluff, killing a doctor, nurse, and pilot. The chopper had no night vision gear.
No, that was needed to occupy a country based on LIES!!!!
But this government is here to "protect" you, huh, 'murkns?!
"There's a lot of frustration out there," said Mike Atwood, owner of Aviation Specialties Unlimited Inc. in Boise, Idaho. The company is the exclusive distributor for ITT Technologies, the nation's largest manufacturer of the latest generation of night vision goggles.
"We understand the demand, but as a defense contractor our first priority is to the US military needs," said ITT spokeswoman Allison Moore.
She said ITT has boosted its production capacity to try to meet demand for domestic users."Translation: The AMERICAN PEOPLE come SECOND when it comes to WARS for Iz-ray-HELL and EMPIRE!!!!!!!!!
Just like the Strategic Oil Reserve.
You don't think you are going to get any of that, do you, Americans?
That's for the MILITARY after we attack Iran!
