Soldiers Defend Body Armor

Army News Service ^ | July 13, 2007 | Staff Writer

[Redbob]

"...Soldiers' Families have been misled by conflicting media reports that left them concerned that the Army might not be doing all it can to protect its Soldiers."

Gee, whose interests would be served by doing that?
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[Clam Digger]

Gee, whose interests would be served by doing that?

The makers of that Lizard Flesh stuff.

[stm]

I am living proof that these things work. I took an AK round square in the middle of my chest during a firefight back in 2004. My SAPI plate stopped it and all I had to show for it was two cracked ribs, bruises in the outline of my dogtags and soiled underwear. The rag who shot me did not fare nearly as well thanks to my guys.

[Doctor Raoul]

We met a moonbat at Walter Reed who bought into the BS going around that our troops had less than the best available body armor and that he had purchased, at his own cost of $5,000, some Dragonskin armor for his kid. The kid was wearing it in violation of orders.

There are reports out there of irregularities in the statements and tests by Dragonskin's manufacturer and in news reports broadcast by NBC News, in particular Lisa Myers. If the reports of misleading the public are true, and it appears that they are, Dragonskin's manufacturer and Lisa Myers have put our troops at risk.

The Moonbats are killing their own kids by buying into any and every Bush Bashing BS that comes along.

MFSO & NBC Lied
Moonbats' Kids Died

[NEMDF]

Thank you for your service.

God Bless Our Troops.

Marine Mom

[GingisK]

Soldiers Defend Body Armor

I would, too. Especially if my hide were inside it.

[ozzymandus]

You won’t see this on NBC News.

[Doctor Raoul]

I remember watching CSPAN and a press conference where the Army developers of body armor were demonstrating the equipment and answering questions. Some dumbass reporter asked why what was on display was the "seventh generation" and why that wasn't just provided first? As if they were deliberately NOT fielding the latest and greatest.

The also had a Marine SGT school the dumb bastards about body armor. The discussion centered around "shoulder pads" which the Marines can have, but few use. The reporters were aghast. The SGT looked at them as they were a bunch of dumbasses (which they were) and told them that the key to saving his life on more often being able to get over a wall. And that the "shoulder pads" restricted his ability to do that.

We need a legal licensing requirement for reporters. We don't let lawyers, doctors, pilots or truck drivers practice their profession if they are not qualified.

[CJ Wolf]

My stepson came home with one of these vests to show me while he was on leave. Cool stuff. Heavy but cool.

[stefanbatory]

could this be Darwin’s theory at work if the children of the moonbats are the ones more likely to die because they are not wearing the armor that has been shown to be superior?

[Doctor Raoul]

It’s not fair to those kids. We should call whatever agency in that state deals with child protection and report that Dad for endangering his son.

[PUGACHEV]

Wikipedia has an interesting article on Dragonskin, which I never heard of until this thread. Apparently, if I read the article correctly, the Dragonskin ceramic discs fall apart, or become dislodged somehow, at temperatures above 120 degrees F. I can understand the military’s reservations, as this would be less than ideal in desert conditions.

[stefanbatory]

They’re over 18...not much to do with child protective services anymore by then...

[Little Bill]

I remember going out on an ambush in '68, we were walking to the main gate at Cu Chi before the gates closed and some dude driving a M151 skidded to a halt after a gun shot.

The guy driving the Jeep took a round in the back through two layers of his flack jacket, draped over his seat. One of our medically inclined did a quick survey and found a surface wound, scraped the round out with a knife.

You guys have a lot better stuff than we did, we used to call the inserts that Huey gunners wore "Chicken Plates"

[stm]

We went through the war in 03 with the Vietnam era flak jackets. We used to sit on them in the HMMWV’s, they for damn sure were not much good to us any other way.

[thefactor]

who’s to say that the armor isn’t good, just that the dragon skin is better? i saw an actual demonstration on future weapons on the discovery channel. looked to me like dragon skin is amazing.

[PsyOp]

Glad to hear it. My brother was saved by a Second Chance vest years ago when he was working as a security guard. Nothing as powerfull as an Ak round though.

After all the articles slamming the body armor our folks are wearing (like my own kid currently in the green zone), I thought this one showed the up side we’ll never hear on CNN.

[PsyOp]

Last night on the Military channel the program “Future Weapons” hosted by that ex-Seal had a segment on the DragonSkin body armor. They shot it full of 5.56 and 7.62 steel-core AP rounds and it stopped them all. Then they threw the shot up vest over a fragmentation grenade. No penetration.

If it works as demonstrated in the show, the stuff is pretty awsome. Perhpas better than what is being used now. But the point of the article is that the stuff we have now works pretty good.

[PsyOp]

i saw an actual demonstration on future weapons...

I saw the same show last night. It looked like solid stuff to me.