The latest flap over think is really “real” or even close to the truth.
This morning, I woke up and read an article on Yahoo’s news entitled “Is America’s Body Armor Defective?” The alleged author of the article is Charles Simmins. Now I have no idea who Charles Simmins is, but apparently there is a Yahoo contributor and freelance author named Charles Simmins who is an accountant. Nevertheless, if this Charles Simmins is the Charles Simmins of ...
Continue Reading →Every couple of years or so (and sometimes more frequently) US Army body armor testing procedures are called into question by investigating authorities. There used to be a saying among Army troops “that you never had time to do things right, but you always had time to do them again.” Well, apparently in this modern army, you don’t even have “to do things right” if Lt. Gen. Phillips and his cohorts like Col. Cole, Project Manager for Soldier Protection, and US Army ...
Continue Reading →The latest DOD IG report confirms — again — the scandalous lack of required testing for Interceptor Body Armor’s ballistic protective plates. A long-time industry insider has summarized the unstated and shocking meaning of the report: “What we have now is ‘reality testing’ where a failure is no longer a statistic, but a real live warrior.”
This simple statement strips away the Pentagon spin and exposes this ugly truth: All the crocodile tears Bob Gates can blubber while signing ...
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