Originally posted by Swordwind
Wow and the army doesnt have the money to buy body armour, boots and ammo for its soldiers. What a world...
This is more media hype. I have friends on the ground in Iraq. They have received thousands of new armored Humvees (not the up-armored versions, the new designs) over the last two years. They have the body armor as well. The problem is politicians who have never been in the infantry think that infantrymen want to wear bodyarmor in 100 degree heat. When an infantryman is seen without his bodyarmor then it adds to the legend that troops don\'t have what they need.
Here\'s a quote from the NY Sun:
\"The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133.....What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That\'s 4,417 deaths in peacetime ...
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