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To: monday

GEN. WHITCOMB: Ma'am, no I have not spoken with Specialist Wilson, and purposely I didn't. The point is not whether he was going through a landfill -- and I'll tell you how we do things -- the point is he brought up a question on up-armored vehicles.

What I think Specialist Wilson was probably talking about is going through a facility that we've got that takes vehicles of two types; one, it takes vehicles that have been hit in combat and can't be fixed in Iraq and we bring them back here into Kuwait and we either fix them or we take parts off them that we can use. And some of those parts may, in fact, be the level-three armor, the steel plating that we either take off and put into stacks that we'll reuse, or that my suspicion -- and it's a suspicion only -- is that Specialist Wilson and his crew came in and found a vehicle or found some of that stuff and was taking it to add on to their vehicles. It's counterproductive to go try and track the specialist down. He had a concern for the armoring for his vehicles, as we all do, and he brought that up and we addressed that. I don't think -- well, I just don't know whether he was in a landfill. We don't normally throw things that we can use back into a trash bin or a landfill-type thing.




29 posted on 12/10/2004 1:58:49 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan
What soldiers are using is scrap, it doesn't have to be manufactured originally as armor. RPGs explode on contact and carry an armor penetrating charge. If they can be made to go off before hitting and penetrating the side of a vehicle, obviously less damage occurs.

Many vehicles have grilles welded to them in order to explode an RPG before it hits the side of a vehicle. I believe this is the type of modifications soldiers are doing in the field. Heavy armor isn't necessary for these modifications.
30 posted on 12/10/2004 2:13:54 PM PST by monday
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