So what, we're all supposed to cheer about the Army finally getting around to doing the right thing? Finally? They finally decided sending adequate body armour might be a good idea? I'm glad soldiers who have been sent into the line of fire on behalf of the North American Bedwetter Brigade are finally getting the armour they should have had from Day One. The Army doesn't get to claim credit for finally getting around to doing the right thing.
Army officials said Wednesday that they had decided to send additional body armor to Iraq to protect soldiers from insurgents' attacks.
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In Congress on Wednesday, Army and Marine officials defended their efforts to procure additional armor, saying they had to weigh the benefits of additional plates against adding weight and restricting mobility.
Those might be actual valid concerns, but why have they taken this long to get around to addressing them, and more importantly, why weren't they issuing these vests while R&D was on-going? Believe it or not, sometimes the end-users of this equipment come up with effective modifications on an ad-hoc basis by actual use...something the Bedwetter Brigade could never know, if it wasn't mentioned in a Military Channel program note.
posted by Jo Fish on 01.11.06 at 10:42 PM
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Hey man. Great blog. Keep the truth flowing...
The solution to King George:
MASSIVE GENERAL STRIKES across the country at all levels of society EVERY FRIDAY. It's a simple thing to remember and hard to supress.
Either simply stay home or go to massive peaceful gatherings in public places on that day. This in lieu of accepting being treated like serfs in a banana republic by the Monkey Boy, robbed, spied upon, left to die, used as tools of empire. Fuck this, folks.
MASSIVE GENERAL STRIKES until the bastard leaves office.
Pass the word to everyone you know. Let's get this thing going. Our lives may depend on it.
More interestingly, the CEO of DHB industries, the same company that makes the Interceptor vests used by our military (and blasted in the marine corps' forensic study), is the same jackass who threw the $10 million dollar party for his daughter's bat mitzvah. 23,000 of his vests have been recalled. Maybe some of those profits would have been better served going back into R&D, to make a more effective, lighter, body armor system. But I'm sure it was a kick-ass party.
