MSNBC: Army forbids use of "Commercial Body Armor" sent to Iraq

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Just now, no link, live on MSNBC.

Families who have purchased body armor for sons, daughters, husbands, wives fighting in Iraq are screwed...the Army is no longer allowing the use of "commercially purchased body armor."

They won't SUPPLY body armor that will keep the soldiers ALIVE, but you can't SEND it to them EITHER.

If anyone has a link to this story, please feel free to post it.

:grr:

[blondeatlast]

1. Found this at the LA Times.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-armor31mar31,1,7395566.story?coll=la-headlines-world

I'll let this quote stand without comment:
"We're very concerned that people are spending their hard-earned money on something that doesn't provide the level of protection that the Army requires people to wear. So they're, frankly, wasting their money on substandard stuff," said Col. Thomas Spoehr, director of materiel for the Army.

Ahem, DU. Discuss.

And this:
Murray Neal, chief executive of Pinnacle, said he hadn't seen the directive.

"We know of no reason the Army may have to justify this action," Neal said. "On the surface, this looks to be another of many attempts by the Army to cover up the billions of dollars spent on ineffective body armor systems which they continue to try quick fixes on to no avail."
Emphais mine.

[SIU_Blue]

3. my take:

"We're very concerned that people are spending their hard-earned money on something that blows the cover on our billions of dollars worth of no-bid contracts for faulty or useless body armor. So we're, frankly, going to screw over the soldiers to maintain our cover-up" said Col. Thomas Spoehr, director of materiel for the Army.

[blondeatlast]

4. Great minds, and all that? That's exactly what I thought.

When will someone realize that "supporting the troops" means more than a magnet on a damn car?

[SIU_Blue]

5. When they stop watching FOX news

and when the rest of our media gets their heads out of the sand. (Helen Thomas excepted of course :P )

[longship]

2. This will do wonders for troop morale.

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