Rumsfeld not reimbursing troops who have to purchase their own body armor

[Imagevision]

From Spc. Richard Murphy, who wrote,

“When my company landed in theatre in May, I was one of the few soldiers equipped with body armor effective at stopping powerful AK-47 ammunition. My mother, an elementary school art teacher, shipped the bullet-proof ceramic plates to me from the States. Other soldiers weren't so lucky, having to raid buildings and patrol dangerous streets while wearing inferior Vietnam-era flak jackets.”

Richard didn’t have the proper equipment to fight effectively in a war zone, so his mother bought it for him on Ebay. This is a true story. And there are countless others like it. Thousands of Troops and military families paid out of their own pockets to increase their survivability and that of their subordinates.

President Bush signed the bill into law in October 2004, but the Department of Defense has never complied with this provision. First, Rumsfeld screwed up by failing to get our troops the equipment they needed. Now he is failing them again by disregarding the reimbursement legislation.

"Rumsfeld, We as Troops don’t go to war with the Army we have. We go to war with the Army we are given".
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[jobycom]

1. If they were faith based troops with tax exemptions, maybe they'd be

reimbursed?

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. If they were Faith Based they wouldn't need armor.

[jobycom]

8. They would too. To protect them when they threw the Holy Hand Grenade!

[fooj]

2. I say we drop the SOB in the middle of Iraq with NO BODY ARMOR

and NO BULLETS!!!! Woo hoo! Sounds like a real picnic, doesn't it?

:grr:

[bballny]

3. This is the society of personal responsibility

and the soldiers are responsible for their own armor. I'm surprised they don't have to pay for food and bullets.

[Imagevision]

5. And this tragic news gets no media attention, no interest

as we all claim to, "support our troops" what a joke!

[napi21]

6. Jack Cafferty talked about that this hr. on CNN. His question is

"should the troops or their families have to pay for their own equipment?" Jack said today is the one year aniversary of the Congress demanding DO reimburse those who bought their own armor etc, and that NOTHING has happened. He said Rummy said it's an unmanageable program.

[Gronk Groks]

7. Why am I not surprized....

....Halliburton cronies=Billions; US troops being sent to the front line on a lie=Nada, nothing, zip...

After all if you pay for body armor you have less to embezzle.