U.S. Soldier Systems Update

摘要

"... We don't want to continue to treat a Soldier like a Christmas tree - where we just hang more things on them. Instead, we have been making a deliberate effort to integrate these technologies together to provide a capability that we put onto the Soldier..." - Statement by Brigadier General (P) Peter N. Fuller, [former] Program Executive Officer Soldier (PEO Soldier), before the Tactical Land Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, 17 March 2011 In his mid-March 2011 testimony before the Tactical Land Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, former PEO Soldier Brigadier General (P) Peter N. Fuller offered the infamous "Christmas tree" analogy against a summarized background of recent accomplishments in fielding new technology to individual U.S. warfighters by PEO Soldier [Note: Major General Fuller was reassigned and deployed to Afghanistan during the summer of 2011].