Army Ground Combat Vehicle Back On Track, Program Chief Says
February 23, 2012
FT. LAUDERDALE: The Army's Ground Combat Vehicle is back on schedule despite a nearly nine-month delay due to an industry protest bid, according to the top officer in charge of the effort.
The Army says it is in position to have a GCV platform in production within the next seven years, Project Manager Col. Andrew DiMarco told reporters at a briefing during a Association of the U.S. Army conference here. That plan, which calls for two to three years of testing and a four-year engineering and manufacturing development phase, is the same benchmark service leaders set for the program back in 2009. Currently program officials are conducting preliminary evaluations on a number of vehicles at the Army's test facility in White Sands, NM, DiMarco. Those results will feed into the follow on EMD portion of the program. "It's a good mix of [all] ends of the [vehicle] spectrum," he said of the vehicle pool being reviewed. The Army's recent confidence in the GCV effort is a far cry from the troubles the program endured last year.
The program was brought to a halt last August, when a industry team led by Boeing and SAIC filed a protest against the service's decision to award General Dynamics and BAE Systems GCV development deals. The protest bid, which ended up delaying work on the program for over nine months, came less than a week after the Army issued the awards. The Government Accountability Office officially denied the protest last December. On top of that, the Army and the Pentagon had been sparring over the program's total cost. At the time, Army estimates for the total GCV costs, including operations and maintenance, has the service spending between $11 to $13 million per vehicle, DiMarco said. Analysis done by the Pentagon's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office has that number closer to $16 to $17 million per copy. A day after awarding the GCV deals, DiMarco told reporters the service would cancel the GCV if program costs exceeded the $10.5 billion per vehicle price tag.
But the delay turned out to be somewhat of a blessing in disguise, Scott Davis, program executive officer for PEO Ground Combat Systems, said at today's briefing. By having to push back GCV development, the Army was also able to push back spending on the program. So instead of having to fight for funding in the extremely tight fiscal 2013 spending plan, Army number crunchers were able to defer those costs to later years. The result: nearly $3.1 billion in funding suddenly became available in the fiscal '13 request.
This string of wins has given the Army some much needed optimism for the program. However, DiMarco was clear that program officials cannot afford to take their eye off the ball. The $10.5 billion fixed-price cap written into the GCV development deals will help keep the vehicle from sliding into requirements creep -- or the addition of excessive requirements onto a given program. Costs may also drive the Army to adopt a modernized version of one of their current vehicles to fill the GCV requirement, DiMarco said. But that option is unlikely, since the modifications alone could cause the program's bottom line to skyrocket.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Army Avoids 'Radical Reshaping' Of Vehicle Fleet, Despite Budget Cuts
AOL Defense: Army Avoids 'Radical Reshaping' Of Vehicle Fleet, Despite Budget Cuts
February 23, 2012
FT. LAUDERDALE: The Army's sizable combat vehicle fleet will remain largely intact despite ongoing efforts inside the Pentagon to reshape the service into a post-Afghanistan force.
While the Army may not be able to buy the amount of new vehicles or modernize the number of legacy systems it wants, the service's overall combat vehicle strategy will remain intact, according to Scott Davis, program executive officer for ground combat systems. There is nothing in the Pentagon's new five year spending strategy or the White House's new national security strategy "that terribly concerns us," he told reporters during a briefing at the Association of the U.S. Army's winter symposium here. "We may [decline] in quantities or distribution, but no real changes," Davis said. His comments come weeks after Maj. Gen Tim Crosby, head of the Army's program executive office for aviation, said that his accounts would largely be spared the budget axe across the service's future years defense plan.
However, combat vehicle accounts did not come out completely unscathed. Service leaders decided to terminate the Humvee recapitalization effort in the fiscal '13 plan. The cancellation of the Modernized Expanded Capability Vehicle program gave the Army some much needed budget breathing room. It also cleared the way for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and Ground Combat Vehicle to enter into the arsenal. Weapon systems aside, the Army did decide to cut over 50,000 troops from the total force as part of its fiscal 2013 budget plan unveiled earlier this month. Army units stationed in the continental United States and in Europe were hit particularly hard by the troop cuts. But the drop in troop strength could end up being an advantage for Army planners.
The reduction in Army personnel numbers drops the combat vehicle requirement for Army units, Col. William Sheehy, project manager for the Army heavy brigade combat teams, explained at the same briefing. That drop in requirements opens the door for service planners to use those excess vehicles for other development efforts. The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, the proposed follow-on to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, will likely be a modified version of an existing Army platform, Sheehy said. Even though the AMPV is still in the "nascent stages" the $2.4 million Army-imposed cost cap on the effort all but rules out a brand new vehicle, Davis said. That kind of attention to cost could prompt the Army to do the same thing with the GCV. Leveraging a highly-modified Bradley or Stryker vehicle to fill the GCV requirement is "a potential scenario," Project Manager Col. Andrew DiMarco said. But he did note the level of work required -- particularly with the communications, command and control systems-- to get a legacy Army vehicle up to GCV specs would probably rule that option out.
However the Army decides to reshape its combat vehicle fleet to fit a post-Afghanistan world, one thing is for certain: tanks and trucks will continue to be a staple of Army warfighting, Davis said. As long as that remains largely unchanged, so will the service's combat vehicle fleet, he said.
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February 23, 2012
FT. LAUDERDALE: The Army's sizable combat vehicle fleet will remain largely intact despite ongoing efforts inside the Pentagon to reshape the service into a post-Afghanistan force.
While the Army may not be able to buy the amount of new vehicles or modernize the number of legacy systems it wants, the service's overall combat vehicle strategy will remain intact, according to Scott Davis, program executive officer for ground combat systems. There is nothing in the Pentagon's new five year spending strategy or the White House's new national security strategy "that terribly concerns us," he told reporters during a briefing at the Association of the U.S. Army's winter symposium here. "We may [decline] in quantities or distribution, but no real changes," Davis said. His comments come weeks after Maj. Gen Tim Crosby, head of the Army's program executive office for aviation, said that his accounts would largely be spared the budget axe across the service's future years defense plan.
However, combat vehicle accounts did not come out completely unscathed. Service leaders decided to terminate the Humvee recapitalization effort in the fiscal '13 plan. The cancellation of the Modernized Expanded Capability Vehicle program gave the Army some much needed budget breathing room. It also cleared the way for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and Ground Combat Vehicle to enter into the arsenal. Weapon systems aside, the Army did decide to cut over 50,000 troops from the total force as part of its fiscal 2013 budget plan unveiled earlier this month. Army units stationed in the continental United States and in Europe were hit particularly hard by the troop cuts. But the drop in troop strength could end up being an advantage for Army planners.
The reduction in Army personnel numbers drops the combat vehicle requirement for Army units, Col. William Sheehy, project manager for the Army heavy brigade combat teams, explained at the same briefing. That drop in requirements opens the door for service planners to use those excess vehicles for other development efforts. The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, the proposed follow-on to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, will likely be a modified version of an existing Army platform, Sheehy said. Even though the AMPV is still in the "nascent stages" the $2.4 million Army-imposed cost cap on the effort all but rules out a brand new vehicle, Davis said. That kind of attention to cost could prompt the Army to do the same thing with the GCV. Leveraging a highly-modified Bradley or Stryker vehicle to fill the GCV requirement is "a potential scenario," Project Manager Col. Andrew DiMarco said. But he did note the level of work required -- particularly with the communications, command and control systems-- to get a legacy Army vehicle up to GCV specs would probably rule that option out.
However the Army decides to reshape its combat vehicle fleet to fit a post-Afghanistan world, one thing is for certain: tanks and trucks will continue to be a staple of Army warfighting, Davis said. As long as that remains largely unchanged, so will the service's combat vehicle fleet, he said.
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AUSA: U.S. Army Plans Post-War Management of Stryker Fleet
AUSA: U.S. Army Plans Post-War Management of Stryker Fleet
The U.S. Army has more than 4,000 Stryker infantry combat vehicles, and with combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the service is considering how to prioritize resources across the fleet.
Now the Army is focused on deploying hundreds of new Stryker vehicles with a hull designed to better protect against roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
The Army is buying a total of 742 of the double-V-hulled Strykers, built by General Dynamics.
Out of the 37 hits the vehicles have taken in Afghanistan, only a handful have resulted in serious casualties, according to Scott Davis, program executive officer for Army ground combat systems.
Its improved survivability has exceeded the Army’s expectations, Davis told reporters at the Association of the U.S. Army winter symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Although the more survivable vehicles are in high demand, the vast majority of the Army’s Stryker fleet is made up of the original flat-bottomed variant.
One of the strategic choices the Army has to make is how to distribute the double-V-hulled vehicles across the brigades after deployments to Afghanistan are completed, said David Dopp, program manager of the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT).
“Do we use the flat bottoms to train on the double Vs?” Dopp said. “That long-term strategy — there are some strategic issues that have to be determined.”
With current budget constraints, the Army also has to prioritize which vehicles in its Stryker fleet should get upgrades first.
“It’s kind of a complex problem, because I think we know what improvements we could do to make the vehicles better, but we have this huge fleet of over 4,000 vehicles,” Dopp said. “Given the limited resources that we have, what’s the best approach to make these improvements?”
The Army could concentrate on its “go-to-war” double-V-hulled vehicles first, but it also wants to keep the nine brigades of flat bottoms from becoming obsolete, Dopp said.
‘There is a third course that says, if you look at the whole Stryker brigade, there are 60 or so vehicles that are really, really taxed in power, space and weight. So maybe you just focus on those – both flat bottomed and double V,” Davis said.
There are 10 original Stryker variants. Of those, nine have moved into full-rate production.
On Dec. 8, a full-rate production decision was approved for the latest variant — the Stryker Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV).
The Army has approval to build a total of 158 NBCRVs, Dopp said.
In the meantime, the Army has indefinitely deferred a full-rate production decision for the 10th variant, the Stryker Mobile Gun System.
Dopp cited cost, design maturity and possible new requirement needs as reasons why the Army has decided not to ramp up production on the Mobile Gun System.
If the Army decides it is definitely not buying the Mobile Gun System, it will have to look at reorganizing the Stryker brigade, which has been designed to accommodate the 10th vehicle, Dopp said.
The Army is in the process of standing up the ninth and final Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Ft. Hood, Texas.
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The U.S. Army has more than 4,000 Stryker infantry combat vehicles, and with combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the service is considering how to prioritize resources across the fleet.
Now the Army is focused on deploying hundreds of new Stryker vehicles with a hull designed to better protect against roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
The Army is buying a total of 742 of the double-V-hulled Strykers, built by General Dynamics.
Out of the 37 hits the vehicles have taken in Afghanistan, only a handful have resulted in serious casualties, according to Scott Davis, program executive officer for Army ground combat systems.
Its improved survivability has exceeded the Army’s expectations, Davis told reporters at the Association of the U.S. Army winter symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Although the more survivable vehicles are in high demand, the vast majority of the Army’s Stryker fleet is made up of the original flat-bottomed variant.
One of the strategic choices the Army has to make is how to distribute the double-V-hulled vehicles across the brigades after deployments to Afghanistan are completed, said David Dopp, program manager of the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT).
“Do we use the flat bottoms to train on the double Vs?” Dopp said. “That long-term strategy — there are some strategic issues that have to be determined.”
With current budget constraints, the Army also has to prioritize which vehicles in its Stryker fleet should get upgrades first.
“It’s kind of a complex problem, because I think we know what improvements we could do to make the vehicles better, but we have this huge fleet of over 4,000 vehicles,” Dopp said. “Given the limited resources that we have, what’s the best approach to make these improvements?”
The Army could concentrate on its “go-to-war” double-V-hulled vehicles first, but it also wants to keep the nine brigades of flat bottoms from becoming obsolete, Dopp said.
‘There is a third course that says, if you look at the whole Stryker brigade, there are 60 or so vehicles that are really, really taxed in power, space and weight. So maybe you just focus on those – both flat bottomed and double V,” Davis said.
There are 10 original Stryker variants. Of those, nine have moved into full-rate production.
On Dec. 8, a full-rate production decision was approved for the latest variant — the Stryker Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV).
The Army has approval to build a total of 158 NBCRVs, Dopp said.
In the meantime, the Army has indefinitely deferred a full-rate production decision for the 10th variant, the Stryker Mobile Gun System.
Dopp cited cost, design maturity and possible new requirement needs as reasons why the Army has decided not to ramp up production on the Mobile Gun System.
If the Army decides it is definitely not buying the Mobile Gun System, it will have to look at reorganizing the Stryker brigade, which has been designed to accommodate the 10th vehicle, Dopp said.
The Army is in the process of standing up the ninth and final Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Ft. Hood, Texas.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Forgotten Dream
The Forgotten Dream
February 25, 2012
This fast-paced, globe-trotting documentary by Anchor Point Films answers serious questions with serious repercussions on faith in America: Are there really good reasons to believe in the Bible? What does the future hold? Investigators travel far and wide to find expert archaeologists and distinguished theologians to help shed light on these questions and offer the very best scholarly analysis. With "60 Minute" like investigative journalism, this DVD makes an ideal sharing tool and a perfect collection for your apologetics library!
This DVD delves into a couple of serious questions. The first question being, "Are there really any good reasons to believe in the Bible?" and secondly, "What does the future hold?" We have traveled far and near to find archaeologists, and theologians who can help shed light on these questions.
Watch now on YouTube
TakingBackSabbath on Jun 20, 2011
Historicism makes a comeback in this excellent video created by Anchorpoint Films. The events in Daniel 2 confirm the words of Isaias the prophet regarding the God of the Bible - "I declare the end from the beginning." A host of archaeologists and historians comment on the events surrounding the Biblical narrative.
Is your philosophical standpoint true because you believe it, or do you believe your philosophical standpoint because it is true?
For more of these excellent videos, go to anchorpointfilms.com
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February 25, 2012
This fast-paced, globe-trotting documentary by Anchor Point Films answers serious questions with serious repercussions on faith in America: Are there really good reasons to believe in the Bible? What does the future hold? Investigators travel far and wide to find expert archaeologists and distinguished theologians to help shed light on these questions and offer the very best scholarly analysis. With "60 Minute" like investigative journalism, this DVD makes an ideal sharing tool and a perfect collection for your apologetics library!
This DVD delves into a couple of serious questions. The first question being, "Are there really any good reasons to believe in the Bible?" and secondly, "What does the future hold?" We have traveled far and near to find archaeologists, and theologians who can help shed light on these questions.
Watch now on YouTube
TakingBackSabbath on Jun 20, 2011
Historicism makes a comeback in this excellent video created by Anchorpoint Films. The events in Daniel 2 confirm the words of Isaias the prophet regarding the God of the Bible - "I declare the end from the beginning." A host of archaeologists and historians comment on the events surrounding the Biblical narrative.
Is your philosophical standpoint true because you believe it, or do you believe your philosophical standpoint because it is true?
For more of these excellent videos, go to anchorpointfilms.com
Purchase a DVD copy today!
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tacoma police seeking help in locating missing woman
Tacoma police seeking help in locating missing woman
by Halley Griffin, KOMO Communities Reporter
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 10:14pm
Yelena V. Plotnikova
The Tacoma Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing woman.
Yelena Plotnikova was last seen by her family near the 5700 block of East G Street when she left home Feb. 8. She left on foot, and without a mobile phone or vehicle. She has been reported missing three other times recently, say police.
She is a 25 year old female with brown hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet, seven inches tall, and 175 pounds, and was last seen wearing a red jacket and black jeans.
The search for Plotnikova has not turned up any leads with law enforcement or at nearby hospitals.
If you have information on Plotnikova’s whereabouts, please call 911 or contact Detective Lindsey Wade at 253.591.5993 or lwade@cityoftacoma.org.
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by Halley Griffin, KOMO Communities Reporter
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 10:14pm
Yelena V. Plotnikova
The Tacoma Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing woman.
Yelena Plotnikova was last seen by her family near the 5700 block of East G Street when she left home Feb. 8. She left on foot, and without a mobile phone or vehicle. She has been reported missing three other times recently, say police.
She is a 25 year old female with brown hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet, seven inches tall, and 175 pounds, and was last seen wearing a red jacket and black jeans.
The search for Plotnikova has not turned up any leads with law enforcement or at nearby hospitals.
If you have information on Plotnikova’s whereabouts, please call 911 or contact Detective Lindsey Wade at 253.591.5993 or lwade@cityoftacoma.org.
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http://tacoma.komonews.com/news/crime/722431-tacoma-police-seeking-help-locating-missing-woman
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The Army’s Abrams gamble
DOD Buzz
February 21, 2012
The Army’s Abrams gamble
The Army brass has heard from almost everyone by now that there are reasons to worry about its plan to idle Lima, Ohio’s tank plant for the next few years. Got it, the service’s top leaders said last week — but we’re still doing it.
Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told House lawmakers they think National League-style small-ball foreign military sales can help keep body and soul together for General Dynamics Land Systems until 2017. That’s when the Army plans to begin modernizing its M1A2 SEP Abrams tanks, and GD’s plant and workers would ramp out of their production bathtub.
Leaders don’t seem happy about this, but today’s Austerity Army has little choice, as our eminent colleague Matt Cox reported:
“This is something that is of great interest; it’s something that as I said we are looking at very hard,” McHugh said. “We are willing to pursue any reasonable path to ensure that those particularly critical jobs remain viable.”
Shutting down tank production is just one many cost-cutting strategies the Army is now proposing … That said, few proposals create as much worry among lawmakers as one that might suggest that the Pentagon might not have enough M1 tanks to go into a major ground war with North Korea or even China.
The Army’s M1 fleet is roughly 5,000 strong and according to Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno does not need to grow any larger right now.
“Our tank fleet is in good shape, and we are not going to need to start recap of that until 2017,” Odierno told lawmakers, adding that the temporary shutdown stands to save $2.8 billion.
The Army would have to buy at least 70 M1s a year just to keep the production line open, McHugh said, “which is not just far beyond our fiscal ability, it’s far beyond our need.”
There’s a case to be made that tanks today are the horse cavalry of the early 20th century — kept around as much for nostalgia as for battlefield utility. But as soon as you declare that conventional warfare is over and dispose of all your armor, North Korea invades the South and you’ve got a Larry Bond and/or Harold Coyle situation on your hands. This is exactly why the Army leadership is so keen to preserve “balance” in its force and why Secretary Panetta specifically mentioned Korea in last week’s congressional hearings.
Although DoD officials usually are coy about the exact campaign plans that inform their force structure requirements, Panetta spitballed a rollicking airport novel: North Korea attacks the South (where, one hopes, the handsome young Army tank commander can hold the line) and, at the same time, Iran blocks or mines the Strait of Hormuz (where, one hopes, the handsome young surface warfare officer can hold off a small-boat swarm attack).
The military will be structured to deal with this scenario, Panetta said, and that means keeping tanks. But an overall doctrinal commitment does not guarantee business for GD or jobs for the engineers who work on these machines — or that an idle tank plant would start back up when the Army now projects it would.
Copyright 2012 Atkins & Assoc. All Rights Reserved.
February 21, 2012
The Army’s Abrams gamble
The Army brass has heard from almost everyone by now that there are reasons to worry about its plan to idle Lima, Ohio’s tank plant for the next few years. Got it, the service’s top leaders said last week — but we’re still doing it.
Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told House lawmakers they think National League-style small-ball foreign military sales can help keep body and soul together for General Dynamics Land Systems until 2017. That’s when the Army plans to begin modernizing its M1A2 SEP Abrams tanks, and GD’s plant and workers would ramp out of their production bathtub.
Leaders don’t seem happy about this, but today’s Austerity Army has little choice, as our eminent colleague Matt Cox reported:
“This is something that is of great interest; it’s something that as I said we are looking at very hard,” McHugh said. “We are willing to pursue any reasonable path to ensure that those particularly critical jobs remain viable.”
Shutting down tank production is just one many cost-cutting strategies the Army is now proposing … That said, few proposals create as much worry among lawmakers as one that might suggest that the Pentagon might not have enough M1 tanks to go into a major ground war with North Korea or even China.
The Army’s M1 fleet is roughly 5,000 strong and according to Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno does not need to grow any larger right now.
“Our tank fleet is in good shape, and we are not going to need to start recap of that until 2017,” Odierno told lawmakers, adding that the temporary shutdown stands to save $2.8 billion.
The Army would have to buy at least 70 M1s a year just to keep the production line open, McHugh said, “which is not just far beyond our fiscal ability, it’s far beyond our need.”
There’s a case to be made that tanks today are the horse cavalry of the early 20th century — kept around as much for nostalgia as for battlefield utility. But as soon as you declare that conventional warfare is over and dispose of all your armor, North Korea invades the South and you’ve got a Larry Bond and/or Harold Coyle situation on your hands. This is exactly why the Army leadership is so keen to preserve “balance” in its force and why Secretary Panetta specifically mentioned Korea in last week’s congressional hearings.
Although DoD officials usually are coy about the exact campaign plans that inform their force structure requirements, Panetta spitballed a rollicking airport novel: North Korea attacks the South (where, one hopes, the handsome young Army tank commander can hold the line) and, at the same time, Iran blocks or mines the Strait of Hormuz (where, one hopes, the handsome young surface warfare officer can hold off a small-boat swarm attack).
The military will be structured to deal with this scenario, Panetta said, and that means keeping tanks. But an overall doctrinal commitment does not guarantee business for GD or jobs for the engineers who work on these machines — or that an idle tank plant would start back up when the Army now projects it would.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
TACOMA, Wash. — Man runs woman over with truck, tries to kidnap her
TACOMA, Wash. — Man runs woman over with truck, tries to kidnap her
Monday, Feb. 20, 2012
Police are looking for a man they said ran over a woman with his pickup and then tried to kidnap her.
The victim's boyfriend showed pictures to KIRO 7' Eyewitness News reporter Sunny Layne and told her about the victim’s serious injuries.
Hong Hoang was walking home from work at a Tacoma McDonald’s early Friday when she noticed a man following her. She tried to get away in a parking lot, but the man ran her down with his pickup.
Police said the man tried to put her inside his truck, and despite many broken bones, Hoang managed to punch him. The commotion caught the attention of another man in the parking lot, and the attacker drove away, leaving Hoang critically injured, but alive.
“To be able to punch the guy in the face right after he ran over you with a truck, that’s a pretty strong woman, as far as I'm concerned. I've never met a stronger woman in my life,” said Hoang’s boyfriend, Kris Moore.
Moore says Hoang is recovering at Tacoma General Hospital with a broken pelvis, ribs, leg, bruised lung and other injuries.
"I had to leave because I couldn't stop crying because it was so terrible to hear her scream that much," said Moore. "She's not going to be able to work for a very long time. She's going to be able to have to re-learn to walk."
It will be a long road to recovery, but Moore says he will be there every step of the way.
Hoang is still in the intensive care unit, but is conscious and talking.
Police said they are looking for a man in his late 20s, who is 6 feet tall with dark skin and short, curly dark hair. They said he drove a dark blue Chevrolet pickup that may have a broken back window. The license plate possibly ended with the numbers 10 and the letter N.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call police.
Hong Hoang
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Monday, Feb. 20, 2012
Police are looking for a man they said ran over a woman with his pickup and then tried to kidnap her.
The victim's boyfriend showed pictures to KIRO 7' Eyewitness News reporter Sunny Layne and told her about the victim’s serious injuries.
Hong Hoang was walking home from work at a Tacoma McDonald’s early Friday when she noticed a man following her. She tried to get away in a parking lot, but the man ran her down with his pickup.
Police said the man tried to put her inside his truck, and despite many broken bones, Hoang managed to punch him. The commotion caught the attention of another man in the parking lot, and the attacker drove away, leaving Hoang critically injured, but alive.
“To be able to punch the guy in the face right after he ran over you with a truck, that’s a pretty strong woman, as far as I'm concerned. I've never met a stronger woman in my life,” said Hoang’s boyfriend, Kris Moore.
Moore says Hoang is recovering at Tacoma General Hospital with a broken pelvis, ribs, leg, bruised lung and other injuries.
"I had to leave because I couldn't stop crying because it was so terrible to hear her scream that much," said Moore. "She's not going to be able to work for a very long time. She's going to be able to have to re-learn to walk."
It will be a long road to recovery, but Moore says he will be there every step of the way.
Hoang is still in the intensive care unit, but is conscious and talking.
Police said they are looking for a man in his late 20s, who is 6 feet tall with dark skin and short, curly dark hair. They said he drove a dark blue Chevrolet pickup that may have a broken back window. The license plate possibly ended with the numbers 10 and the letter N.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call police.
Hong Hoang
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video : Man runs over woman, tries to kidnap her
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http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crime-law/man-runs-woman-over-truck-tries-kidnap-her/nJJgs/
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