"Soldiers are now equipped with bullet-resistant vests, after a shortage that led many soldiers to pay for costly body armor themselves."
Absolutely pathetic! Heads should roll for this outrageous oversight!
Care to guess how many of those compolainng about not having vests weren't the ones 'needing' them and probably wouldn't wear them anyway?
Soldiers in Desert Strom didn't all deploy and fight with level IIIa armor and ballistic plates and no body demanded heads for that.
Personally I've not seen any troops operating outside the gates without body armor and I've been here more than a minute.
I'm tired of this armor subject. I'm wondering who really needs these vest? Combat soldiers? Right? Do office workers need the new and improved vest to protect them from office staples? Other post are right. The government order the new armor and it takes time to manufactuer them. Ask the previous Administration why they didn't spend funds to protect our armed forces with the latest armor technology and make the armour as apart of standard issue? Bush only inherited a poorly equiped military. His Administration has to work with resources given to them. The Dem's having a field day knocking Bush over the head with armor plates and they are the ones who created this situation.