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Validating a tactical KB UAS can be used to enable over-the-horizon communications connectivity between troops on the move and their commanders within in a multiple network environment.

The Army's recruiting numbers may get an added boost in March after the Army launches a traveling, virtual reality exhibit. The Virtual Army Experience is a high-tech, team-based experience designed to immerse visitors in the operational roles of Soldiers.

The 10,000-square-foot interactive exhibit brings the Army's exceptionally popular computer game, "America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch)," to a life-size networked world. In the Virtual Army Experience, participants employ teamwork, leadership and high-tech equipment as they take part in a hands-on virtual mission to capture a terrorist leader.

Q Mr. Secretary, among the criticisms that have been offered of you -- made of you by several retired generals in recent days is that you've been dismissive and even contemptuous of the advice offered by senior military officers, and they've also said that on a strategic level, that you have been -- they've faulted you for some failures in connection with the Iraq war, including failing to gain sufficient international support for the initial invasion, for example, on the Northern Front and for post-combat operations, the stability operations.



Do you see validity in any of those criticisms? And is it appropriate for these to be aired publicly by retired generals?



SEC. RUMSFELD: Well, you know, I've been hearing about all of this, and I kind of would prefer to let a little time walk over it. There are important issues that are involved. There's no question about that. Change is difficult. It also happens to be urgently necessary. Transforming this department is important. The -- I think that because of the importance of these matters that are being discussed, I'd like to reflect on them a bit, and I'm a little reluctant to start taking each piece of what people talk about and -- or the individuals involved, and I just am not inclined to be instantaneously judgmental about them.



Q Mr. Secretary --



SEC. RUMSFELD: I did -- coming into work today, I did think about something that happened 30 years ago, I think close to this month. I was secretary of Defense, and to my office at about 7:00 at night came a decision where I was told that the Army was recommending an M1 Battle Tank that had a 120 millimeter cannon, as I recall, instead of the 105 howitzer that the Army traditionally had. And the Army was in favor of the 105 and in favor of a diesel engine. And the other approach would have been for the -- to standardize with our NATO allies at 120 millimeters and also to move away from t