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Body Armor? No solutions for women.
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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...
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