Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor - New York Times

Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor - New York Times

Getting things you need in the field can take painfully long. Add studies and the often mollases pace of procurement and it takes longer.

This is by no means an example of the Administrations poor handling in Iraq, but an example of bureaucracy and oversized government.

The soldiers in the field and their commanders should be heard better than they often are. However, there are trade offs one of them mentioned is the additional weight, but they're willing to deal with that.

Another that comes to mind to me is the eventual sheer bulkiness of the armor. It sounds as though it has come a long way, however, my memory of switching out from the Vietnam era vests to bulkier more protective armor brings to mind mobility. The newer vest in the mid-80's were stiff as a board. The back of the collar on mine often pushed the front of my (new) kevlar helmet over my eyes when in the prone position, which is not how one gets the best view.

Nothing is ever as easy as it seems to most people, especially the media.