Pinnacle Armor has astroturfed DailyKos
Right now on the front page, promoted from the diaries, is a distorted tale of the Army's rejection of a small and shadowy Fresno, CA company's body armor.
View ArticleHackworth's Widow Defends a Deathbed Promise
Hey Kossacks! I’m David Hackworth’s widow Eilhys and I’ve just finished reviewing much of the traffic kicked off by Occam’s Hatchet’s initial, powerful diary on body armor -- which was brought to my...
View ArticleWhy Does Bush Hate Our Troops? Why Does He Hate America?
Yesterday, I wrote the following diary:We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Republican Administrations!It was a brief explication of the Reagan and Bush Administrations' ever shifting allegiances, between...
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Camp David Nudist Resort
Crossposted from Town Called Dobson& My Left Wingclick to enlarge
View ArticleBody armor: I don't know whether to puke or scream
Over the course of the past year or so I have diaried a few times about the Pentagon’s stubborn refusal to conduct full, fair and open testing of body armor that might be superior to that currently...
View ArticleIPOD Saves a Soldier's Life. Apple FTW!
Maybe Dubya can issue more of these since he won't provide better armor for the troops:http://www.flickr.com/...(h/t to the Applegeeks Blog)We should send him an IPOD with some Decemberists on it while...
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Bake sales for body armor 2.0
You've seen the bumper sticker, at one time or another:Well, it actually has come to that - sort of.
View ArticleBody armor: Marine Corps threatening La Rosa family?
Wow. We must be getting close. The Marine Corps is, umm, pretty sensitive about this whole body armor thing, it would seem.In a new development in the saga of Dragon Skin body armor, it appears that...
View ArticleBody armor: Mike Ross (AR-04) calls for investigation!
It's finally happening - a United States congressman is calling for an investigation into the Pentagon's testing of body armor.U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said he planned to call for an investigation...
View ArticleWHO Doesn't Support The Troops? Bush Ignores The Wounded!
With Bush, Cheney, and McCain once again equating Democratic opposition to the war with lack of support for the troops, Salon's Mark Benjamin has produced yet another bombshell report on the...
View ArticleG******n Body Armor Issues Still Exist...w/Vid
The issue of proper body armor for our troops has been in the forefront of the mismanagement of this goddamn stupid war. Once again the DoD has rejected Dragon Skin as a body armor bidder even though...
View ArticleBody armor about to hit the fan - Part I (Updated w/NBC info)
The issue of open testing of body-armor alternatives is one about which I have been writing for nearly a year-and-a-half. During that time, 1,308 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and...
View ArticleDragonSkin vs. the republicans
Go Occam's Hatchet--more ReThuglicans woesClassic case of Republican political donors...Armor Holdings...making a buck off the dead bodies of US soldiers.
View ArticleNBC uncovers Biggest Scandal of the War
I caught this last night on Keith Olbermann. It was reported on by Lisa Meyers. Our troops are not being given the most effective body armor. In fact, the army BANS Dragon Skin Armor.Even the creator...
View ArticleNBC: Soliders Given 2nd-Rate Armor, "Die Unnecessarily"
This is a short diary, mainly here in the hopes this major story will be followed as it develops. You might remember Lt. Col. Hackworth, who, when he passed away was America's most-decorated fighter,...
View ArticleTwo Words: Body Armor
“I’ve told many family I’ve met with, ‘We’re doing everything we possibly can to protect your loved ones.’”--George W. Bush, December 2004Body armor is back in the news. Again. Imagine that. Like so...
View ArticleBody armor about to hit the fan - Part II (UPDATED)
It's amazing what a little exposure in the corporate media can do. Within a few hours after NBC ran a nice little story during Thursday's Nightly News on the issue of the military’s testing of body...
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Body Armor? No solutions for women.
Crossposted from Left Toon Lane& My Left Wingclick to enlarge
View ArticleJohn Edwards makes his move
When the Democratic leadership of Congress decided to back off from their demand for a timetable of withdrawal in the latest draft of the Iraq funding bill they created a problem for two of the...
View ArticleBody armor: Congressional hearing TODAY (Updated, with audio link)
When last we left the body armor saga two weeks ago, NBC was about to put the military's standard-issue Interceptor Body Armor up to some limited side-by-side testing with Dragon Skin body armor. Since...
View ArticleWhat's So Hard About This?
Let me say right off the bat for anybody who doesn't already know it: I've never served in the military in any way. Although I have been under fire a few times, and had loaded guns pointed in my face,...
View ArticleBody armor: The fog of war profiteering
As Meteor Blades told in his front page article today, at yesterday's House Armed Services Committee hearing on the military's testing of body armor, congressional representatives expressed enough...
View ArticleBreaking:The Empire Strikes Back: Pinnacle to be debarred
Debarment Sought for Contractor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Air Force Materiel Command has recommended that body-armor manufacturer Pinnacle Armor Inc. be debarred from federal...
View ArticleBetter Body Armor Being Blocked
First, thank you to all of you for the support, both financial and otherwise. Our fundraising totals aren't quite complete yet so I will talk about all that later once the totals are done. My staff...
View ArticleThe inquiry is officially underway.
After reading this post by Occam's Hatchet I sent an email to US Senator Cantwell of Washington with a bunch of details from this series. Sen. Cantwell sent an official letter to the Army. I got an...
View ArticleMore details about the I.G. inquiry post.
This is a response to several comments on my diary posting dated 7/16/07.Important Clarification - The I.G. inquiry is into the propriety of Col. Norwood going to work for Armor Holdings so soon after...
View Article190,000 guns lost in Iraq- have we armed the insurgents?
This little article caught my eye a little while ago.The US government cannot account for 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to an investigation carried out by...
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Freep This Poll (soliders & body armor)
Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project& My Left Wingclick to enlargeYou go to war with the body armor you have or don't have - as the case may be. Usually, it is a definite LACK of body...
View ArticleFred Thompson Opposed Bullet Proof Vests for Cops
Since it looks like Fred is getting ready to jump into the race next week I thought I'd take a look at the Congressional Record during his tenure. Now you would think that Arthur Branch would be very...
View ArticleBush will veto Defense bill--because of teh GAY!!!
It has been a long, arduous battle to get federal hate crimes legislation expanded to include acts of violence based on sexual orientation. The House has already passed legislation incorporating such...
View ArticleArmy Body Armor - One inquiry is nearing completion.
The inquiry into whether there were improprieties in Col. Norwood's employment by Armor Holdings so soon after he conducted the Army body armor evaluation that Armor Holdings won is nearing completion....
View ArticleBody armor execs finally indicted for stock fraud, tax evasion
I guess, from the indictment, they went to war with the inventory they wanted, not the inventory they had. Maybe this explains why the troops never quite had enough body armor. And, of course, if these...
View ArticleMedical research shows latest body armor not sufficient to prevent TBI
Science has printed an article about research done by Dr. Ibolja Cernak and others, demonstrating that cognitive and emotional deficits of brain damage are much more common than previously thought...
View ArticleHutchison (R-TX) calls Feingold bill "a bullet right in the hearts of our...
This is exactly why Russ Feingold was so prescient in pushing the Iraq debate forward today; because the batshit insane Republicans will give a million commercials' worth of soundbites that will show...
View ArticleBody armor: BILLIONS in contracts awarded improperly
This will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this issue over the past two-plus years:The Army can't be sure some of its body armor met safety standards, partly because it didn't do proper...
View ArticleThe cupcakes challenge: Andrew Rice calls on Inhofe to help troops [OK-Sen]
Yesterday in Norman, Oklahoma, a nice young man made a donation to Bake Sales for Body Armor, a project that does just what the name implies. See, the U.S. government has significant shortfalls in...
View ArticleWhy aren't these ads on the air?
Remember this 2006 ad from VoteVets?This ad ran against George Allen, Rick Santorum and Conrad Burns. All were defeated for reelection.The same vote against giving our troops the body armor they needed...
View ArticleHallelujah! VoteVets Body Armor Ad Back on the Air.
Back in August, we all scratched our heads wondering why the stunningly effective ads from the 2006 cycle weren't on the air this year. That ad had helped take out top Republican targets like George...
View ArticleSpeaking of "cold chills" and "changing shoes"...
"The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,’’ Mrs. McCain said, in an introduction before Mr. McCain...
View ArticleVoteVets Cavalry Arrives in Georgia
First, we wondered why we weren't seeing the last remaining Republican Senators who voted against funding for decent body armor for the troops in Iraq getting kicked in the teeth for it.Then, we...
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Body armor: some people get rich, some people die (Part 1)
They bring all the bodies home through Dover.
View ArticleBody armor, part 2: BAE exports Corruption Too Big To Fail
Diarist's note: Back in 2006, when I first started following the body armor scandal, Armor Holdings was one of the biggest suppliers of armor to the military and had a potentially criminal relationship...
View Article"I'll be GRATEFUL when you give me something that keeps SWORDS from going...
U.S. Army to test female-specific body armorBody armor is a blessing and a curse for soldiers. Modern tactical armor has saved thousands of lives from bullets and bombs, but it can also be a major...
View ArticleWATCH: Remember The Victims, Reject the Violence
The bells rang for the lost: Charlotte Bacon, Olivia Engel, Ana Marquez-Greene, Dylan Hockley, Madeline Hsu, Catherine Hubbard, Jesse Lewis, James Mattioli, Emilie Parker, Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner,...
View ArticleConsider some comparative costs
in my last post I noted the cost of a Bushmaster AR-15, without rounds or magazines, was around $1700.I have also just checked prices on various models of Glock handguns, and found they range from $219...
View ArticleBody Armor For Kids - Real Protection Or False Sense of Security?
If you’ve been following the news lately, you may have become aware that some companies are now adding protective ballistic panels to backpacks and children’s clothing.
View ArticleWalking the Gun Walk At Sky Harbor Int'l Airport (i.e., another gun crazy day...
This is not a joke. Man brings his 12 year old son to the Phoenix Airport. Son is carrying a semiautomatic firearm. Dad was packing a rifle. Coming on the heels of the LAX shootout, some people...
View ArticleGenius? We were at WAR you bastards!
I joined DailyKos at the height of the Iraq War. I adopted the name Fury because for several years I was in a state of...well, fury, over that war. Over the fact that we invaded a country that had...
View ArticleAnother Walmart, another man with loaded weapons
this time in Springfield MO.You can read all the details, and see the relevant video, here.A young man drove into the parking lot, donned body armor over military fatigues and went into the store with...
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Should you wear body armor to a march for your life
There will be marches this Summer. Prior Summers have proven that everyone should be prepared before engaging in peaceful protest. Not everyone agrees, however.Apparently, the wearing of body armor...
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