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I have never been in desert combat, but I was in jungle combat making several river and many canal crossing per patrol.

We had the old flak vests, steel pots, canned food, lots of ammo, grenades,claymores,etc etc all this plus for some a PRC-25 radio ,M60 Machine gun or medical supplies.

Add extra body armor or other goodies her heinousness suggests will not end death in war..

My guys in RVN faced IEDs in our time we simply called them booby traps or command detonated booby traps..

They could be as simple as fragmentation grenades in empty cans whose pins were attached to fishing line trip wires or 155 arty round strung up in trees and detonated by 12 yr old kids hiding in the brush.

From what I understand our guys are facing explosives sometimes 100X more powerful.

Extra body armor is nice but there will be a price to pay.

Less mobility,flexibility,heat exhaustion & heat stroke

Men too tired to pay the kind of attention needed to close, kill and survive or simply avoid enemy ambushes.

There are no easy answers on how to keep our guys from getting hurt in wartime.

Only jerk off selfish egocentric arrogant politicians who will do anything, say anything to amass power or to stay in power...they could give a rats ass about young men and women getting killed or wounded

I say this based upon all the great speeches I have heard from both parties regarding their 'high regard' for our nations veterans

Meanwhile while the speeches were being made they were cutting funds to the VA medical centers where these same highly regarded wounded veterans were in desperate need for the care these politicians were promising but would never deliver

The Clintons..among others....were foremost in the neglect of our nations veterans

I saw the negative changes Bill Clinton made in the VAMCs...

Other than a few unfortunate Arkansas women..I'd have to say that imo Bill Clinton screwed Veterans more than any other president in my lifetime and I'm pushin' 60.