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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment (www.warren.senate.gov)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, legislation that would require contractors to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with access to technical data and materials the military needs to repair and maintain its own equipment.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So the military has been bound by the same handcuffs that McDonalds is with it’s ice cream machines?

Yes... It's funny because I worked on a platform called the MLRS. I saw what repairs to the circuitry of the GPS and other modules look like. I could have fixed it myself... by hand... The circuit boards were vietnam era looking stuff (the platform was from the 80's, but developed during the 70s)... Meaning the trace pitch was measured in mm. Like I could pop open shit and eyeball and solder that shit with crappy $10 bargain bin soldering iron. But nah, needed to get a special civilian to show up and replace the board (they didn't even try to fix it).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unclear if you worked for the army, or for Mcdonalds. Either way you were probably paid about the same, and had to go to war every day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mcdonalds 20% less morally compromising, much worse benefits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

About the same amount of mcrib.