A Christmas wish for our soldiers
"DJ Krypplephite" is a 19-year-old Marine enlistee from Chicago who ships off to boot camp next month. In an open forum on pwnzOr.net, he posted this a week-and-a-half ago:What should I ask for for...
View ArticleSupport the Troops: Recommend this diary
Just a quick note from a devoted non-diarist. Occam's Hatchet has written a superb action diary on the subject of helping our troops in harm's way to get the best body armor available. For those who...
View ArticleAction: Please help our soldiers get the truth
[From the diaries - BarbinMD]THIS IS AN ACTION DIARY.Action Item 1. Please watch this video:The body armor you have just seen stop 40 rounds of 7.62-mm AK-47 ammo from 20 feet, and 150 rounds of 9-mm...
View ArticlePinnacle 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
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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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