Posted on 05/22/2007 3:50:28 PM PDT by rightgrafix
Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney is wading into the debate over body armor for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The freshman congressman is calling for a congressional investigation into which systems provide the best protection.
A spokesman says Courtney sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office to ask for an investigation of the body armor systems being issued by the military services and the Special Operations Command.
The freshman congressman's letter cited recent NBC News reports suggesting Dragon Skin, a privately sold flexible body armor that some families have sought for their soldiers, may be better than Army-issued Interceptor armor. The Army says that's not true.
Courtney's letter asks for a probe to include testing and comparisons of the Interceptor system and other commercially available products, including Dragon Skin.
Courtney appears to be a tad late to the party.
By "the Commission That Figures Out Engineering Stuff And Whether Things Were Fair Or Not".
Remember NBC’s rigged tests on pick up truck gas tanks?
Here we go again. Recycle the body armor thing.
Dragon skin armor: 48 pounds.
Interceptor armor: 26 pounds.
Duh.
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