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2006-01-12 Science & Technology

StrategyPage: More Body Armor and Lower Casualties

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Posted by ed 2006-01-12 11:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The latest media created military scandal..."

Word. Meme Scream. From Strategy Page, no less. Heh.

Posted by .com 2006-01-12 11:38|| 2006-01-12 11:38|| Front Page Top

#2 http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=82376

Money quote:

Lt. Josh Suthoff, 23, of Jefferson City, Mo., said he already sacrifices enough movement when he wears the equipment. More armor would only increase his chances of getting killed, he said.

"You can slap body armor on all you want, but it's not going to help anything. When it's your time, it's your time," said Suthoff, a platoon leader in the brigade's 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment. "I'd go out with less body armor if I could."

Listen to the men who do the fighting, not some bloviating windbag Senator who has never carried a rifle and despises those who do.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-01-12 14:16|| 2006-01-12 14:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Meme Scream Media?

Works for me.

Posted by Slugum Unolulet7181 2006-01-12 14:35|| 2006-01-12 14:35|| Front Page Top

#4 The obvious solution here is to encase our fighting troops in large spheres of the recently developed transparent, bulletproof aluminum oxynitride. Just like those tranparent plastic balls you can put your pet hampster in to let him roam around the house.

Inside their bulletproof spheres, our troops will be protected from bullets, shrapnel and RPG rounds. An IED blast will simply send them rolling across the countryside. Fighting will be problematic since if bullets can't get in, they can't get out either. But our guys will be protected, and that's the whole point, right? As opposed to raining death and destruction down upon the enemy?

Posted by SteveS 2006-01-12 14:50|| 2006-01-12 14:50|| Front Page Top

#5 This thing, SteveS?

Posted by .com 2006-01-12 14:53|| 2006-01-12 14:53|| Front Page Top

#6 That looks like fun. Bet the enlistment rates go way up...

Posted by tu3031 2006-01-12 14:58|| 2006-01-12 14:58|| Front Page Top

#7 i got a better solution. lets just carpet bomb the whole country and start over. Seemed too work in Germany for a few years anyway

Posted by Jerelet Thineling2988 2006-01-12 15:51|| 2006-01-12 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 They have clear ones now?

Posted by 6 2006-01-12 17:24|| 2006-01-12 17:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes. You can see the whole digestive process.

Posted by 2 2006-01-12 18:22|| 2006-01-12 18:22|| Front Page Top

#10 It's part of the new battle plan. Female soldiers (and select hunky boys) will wear the transparent armor plates with nothing underneath. Then while the jihadis are masturbating too furiously to shoot, they will be mowed down like the idiots they are.

Posted by ed 2006-01-12 19:01|| 2006-01-12 19:01|| Front Page Top

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