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US Army Secretary Driscoll: 'We Are Doing the Right Thing'

Published May 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:52

And so fundamentally, what Army Transformation Initiative, what we call ati, is it does four things. So The first bucket of things that it does is it looks at our obsolete equipment and processes and the things that have led to bad outcomes, and we stop buying those things. And so some examples of that. Humvees, we have Gray Eagles, which are big, large drones that have been around for decades, and they just don't fit on the modern battlefield. (00:52–01:02)

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Asserts that the Army Transformation Initiative stops purchasing obsolete equipment.

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