Body armor works great, but not enough to go around

Soldiers will not patrol without the armor � if they can get it. But as of now, there is not enough to go around. Going into the war in Iraq, the Army decided to outfit only dismounted combat soldiers with the plated vests, which cost about $1,500 each. But when Iraqi insurgents began ambushing convoys and killing clerks as well as combat troops, controversy erupted.
Last month, Rep. Ted Strickland (D-Ohio) and 102 other House members wrote to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, to demand hearings on why the Pentagon had been unable to provide all U.S. service members in Iraq with the latest body armor. In the letter, the lawmakers cited reports that soldiers� parents had been purchasing body armor with ceramic plates and sending it to their children in Iraq.

There is something wrong when soldiers need to be equiped by their parents.

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Consider the case of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division.
During a foot patrol in Fallujah in late September, an Iraqi insurgent suddenly emerged from an alleyway and fired an AK-47 at Spec. John Fox from point-blank range. Fox was hit in the stomach as he returned fire, and the blast knocked him off his feet. The bullet hit the middle of three ammunition magazines hanging from the front of his Kevlar vest, igniting tracer rounds and setting off a smoke grenade. A thick gray plume poured from his vest where he lay.

�AM I BLEEDING?�

His squad mates, having shot and killed the gunman, rushed to his side. �Am I bleeding? Am I bleeding?� they recalled Fox asking.
They checked and discovered he was unharmed. His body armor had protected him not only from the AK-47 round but also from his own exploding munitions.
�Fox must have been only 10, 15 meters from this guy,� recalled Sgt. Roger Vasquez. �And this thing stopped the bullet.�

But the good news is this really works, lives are being saved.

Yes , i would say armor helps =)
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Well, we can't equip every soldier with hand held lasers either....

In any armed service, you have to use what you have, where you need it most...

maybe they should issue stuff like you're wearing in the photo.
That way they'll be laughing so much they won't be able to aim properly
I'm only kidding you look really cool.

Originally posted by Gazrok
Well, we can't equip every soldier with hand held lasers either....

In any armed service, you have to use what you have, where you need it most...

Yes, but you know what really fries me?

WHAT THE # IS BUSH SPENDING ALL THE BILLIONS HE ASKS FOR EVERY #ING MONTH ON?

If you take care of the soldiers you have, you don't have to draft more. any retard knows that. apparently bush doesn't.

Hrm....this is rapidly becoming bad for my blood pressure. I'm going on sabbattical for about a day.

Hope you get your rest...

I'm more pissed that they didn't have enough guns to go around!!! No army can put everyone in body armor (yet), but good god, at least make sure each soldier has a god damned weapon!!!!

Originally posted by Loki

Originally posted by Gazrok
Well, we can't equip every soldier with hand held lasers either....

In any armed service, you have to use what you have, where you need it most...

Yes, but you know what really fries me?

WHAT THE # IS BUSH SPENDING ALL THE BILLIONS HE ASKS FOR EVERY #ING MONTH ON?

If you take care of the soldiers you have, you don't have to draft more. any retard knows that. apparently bush doesn't.

Hrm....this is rapidly becoming bad for my blood pressure. I'm going on sabbattical for about a day.

Ok , you get to be on my ignore list.

Yes I know his name is Simon....and he likes to do drawings...

Who gives a shyte?

Your a n00b!

Loki is respected member..

Something that youll never be if you continue on like this..




Listen to Domo Maveric!

Originally posted by FULCRUM
Who gives a shyte?

Your a n00b!

Loki is respected member..

Something that youll never be if you continue on like this..

Listen to Domo Maveric!

HAHA you make it sound like i care.

Fulcrum, may i make a suggestion?......Why don't you ......

as ATS isnt a place for Peelo's, online trouble makers and maniacs..



Have some respect..

Get some class..

now children, play nice.

Funny..

SADF had the money to make most (if not all that were used in operations..) of their supply vehicles small arms fire and mine proof during 60/70/80s wars..

And US doesnt have money for 130 000 flak vests?
(That have 'pockets' for ceramic or armor steel plates..)

Originally posted by Lysergic
now children, play nice.

Still '___'?



Ok mommy, ill play nice..

Actually im already doing so..
(You should know better.. i could make him crap his pants just by typing some mean shyte to here..)

Originally posted by FULCRUM
as ATS isnt a place for Peelo's, online trouble makers and maniacs..

Have some respect..

Sorry, I don't respect uneducated, ill-informed, morons(like you and Loki).

Get some class..

Suggestion noted.

Originally posted by Maverick

Sorry, I don't respect uneducated, ill-informed, morons(like you and Loki).

Boy,

Your daddy needs to teach you a thing or two..

Originally posted by FULCRUM

Originally posted by Maverick

Sorry, I don't respect uneducated, ill-informed, morons(like you and Loki).

Boy,

Your daddy needs to teach you a thing or two..

Ok, putting you on ignore because this is going to far.

They say opposites attract. I hope you meet someone who is good-looking, intelligent, and cultured.


[Edited on 12/5/2003 by Maverick]

Originally posted by Loki


Yes, but you know what really fries me?

WHAT THE # IS BUSH SPENDING ALL THE BILLIONS HE ASKS FOR EVERY #ING MONTH ON?

If you take care of the soldiers you have, you don't have to draft more. any retard knows that. apparently bush doesn't.

Hrm....this is rapidly becoming bad for my blood pressure. I'm going on sabbattical for about a day.

You #EN MORON YOU ARE IN A WEAPONARY FORUM NOT THE POLITIC BUSH BASHING FORUM!

Now..

Whos the moron?

Are you trying to get into the same club with the Laxpla and Maveric?

Loki's cool..

Those that bash him are not..

Originally posted by FULCRUM
Now..

Whos the moron?

Are you trying to get into the same club with the Laxpla and Maveric?

Loki's cool..

Those that bash him are not..

agreed