Soldier says he, Rumsfeld talked about armor in '03

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When a fellow Tennessee National Guardsman raised a pointed question to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week, Iraq war veteran Brandon Sandrell was proud.

It wasn't the first time the defense chief had been personally quizzed by a Guardsman about the lack of armor for Guard vehicles in the war zone.
Sandrell said he did that in September 2003.

''He (Rumsfeld) was making his rounds and thanking me for my service, and he asked me, 'What do you guys need over there, what are you lacking?' I told him we needed up-armored Humvees,'' said Sandrell, who left the Guard on Oct. 1 after two years and nine months of service. He is 21 and lives in Culleoka in Maury County.

The former soldier said the secretary replied that he was working on it.
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