I'm going to be honest here about what I see in Syria.

[KansDem]

52. "...some around here don't care about their safety."

Don't care about their safety?

Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor

A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.

The ceramic plates in vests now worn by the majority of troops in Iraq cover only some of the chest and back. In at least 74 of the 93 fatal wounds that were analyzed in the Pentagon study of marines from March 2003 through June 2005, bullets and shrapnel struck the marines' shoulders, sides or areas of the torso where the plates do not reach.

Thirty-one of the deadly wounds struck the chest or back so close to the plates that simply enlarging the existing shields "would have had the potential to alter the fatal outcome," according to the study, which was obtained by The New York Times.

For the first time, the study by the military's medical examiner shows the cost in lives from inadequate armor, even as the Pentagon continues to publicly defend its protection of the troops.

--more--
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/politics/07armor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I would hazard to guess that not a single DUer would advocate sending improperly-equipped US soldiers into combat. But the fucking Bushistas didn't mind. And they did it under the banner of "patriotism."

It's insane that the fucking cowards who lied us into war didn't want to provide our troops with the proper armor...