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 the Marine Corps might not be too happy that the La Rosa family of Maryville, Tennessee, is trying to get Dragon Skin to their son and all the men in his unit before they deploy to Iraq.
According to Javier [La Rosa], he was contacted by an official from the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., saying "that I need to be educated (about the current body armor)," he said. "Here we are just thinking we're buying these 12 vests, and we're walking into this viper's nest."