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  • **Wilson's Armor Question Unfounded! 800 of the 830 Vehicles were Armored!**

    12/22/2004 7:53:02 PM PST · by DaveLoneRanger · 46 replies · 3,259+ views
    Special Report with Brit Hume - The Grapevine ^ | 12/21/04 | Brit Hume/Michael Levine
    It now appears that the premise of the question that caused an uproar around Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was off base. In Kuwait two weeks ago, Army Specialist Thomas Wilson (search) told Rumsfeld, "our vehicles are not armored ... We do not have proper armament vehicles to carry with us north [into Iraq]." But, according to senior Army officers, about 800 of the 830 vehicles in Wilson's army regiment — the 278th Cavalry — had already been up-armored when he asked the question. What's more, 20 vehicles remaining to be modified were in the process of being up-armored — and...