Thanks so much for the info.
That was very informative.
The letter sent by Senators Clinton and Webb today (posted above) looks like a political attack rather than a true concern.
Let's not forget that it was under Bill Clinton's watch that the first Interceptor Body Armor was bought.
The problem was, the Clinton military leadership felt that IBA was too expensive, and not needed for "ordinary" troops. It was nicknamed "Ranger armor" because only a couple hundred sets were bought per year, to be issued only to Army Rangers on "especially hazardous" missions. At all other times, the armor was kept under lock and key, and had to be signed for and promptly returned to the vault.
The PASGT system was around from the early 1980s, and was a great improvement over the Vietnam-era armor. But by the mid-90s, the Interceptor design was shown to be another quantum leap, but was considered "too expensive".
Remember, it was Bill Clinton who skimped on the troops in order to have more money to spend elsewhere. And it was Hillary who complained that Bush didn't more fast enough to get enough IBA armor into the pipeline, when all he was doing was trying to make up for Clinton's own malfeasance. And now Hillary will use an issue where she is either totally uniformed, or intentionally MISinformed, to score political points again.