Gunny
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Darwins Friend said:Yes - yes I do understand what youre saying. And maybe the kids coming home from Iraq dont squawk about it anymore because theyve gotten by and taken care of it themselves - like the ones whos parents have ponied up for their childs body armor.
Somewhat like Mikal said yesterday, at 86: "The American soldiers are using my AK-47 that they've confiscated - because its a superior weapon".
Guess the "grunts" always improvise - we "squids" always did.
Did you REALLY think this argument would wash here any more than it did on TNFZ?
First, ANY US military person opting a stamped-metal, piece-of-crap bullet-thrower over then M-16A2/M-4 gets my vote for mess duty in the pot shack.
Second, there aren't any parents "ponying up" for body armor. That is a myth perpetuated by the left based on the grandstanding actions of a few lefties three years ago as they tried to spead the misinformation that US troops were being sent into combat without body armor. Hogwash.
US troops went into Afghanistan and Iraq, some with a newer version of the same-old body armor we had in the 90s, some with the older version.
US military history during the era of modern warfare has been a story of events taking place faster than technology can keep up. US Marines in the Phillppines at the outset of WWII still wore doughboy helmets and were armed with '03 Springfields and water-cooled Browning machineguns. Then there is the matter of the US's fighter aircraft at the outset of WWII .......
This is no different a scenario. The left's attempt to act like if one piece of body armor exists that is superior to the rest, then all pieces should be replaced in a manner of seconds is an impossible expectation. But then, isn't that how it always is with you lefties?
The body armor gets to the field as fast as any other technology. Simple as that.
Another thing missing from your argument is the fact that troops in 2003/2006 wouldn't be wearing the same body armor Ronald Reagan bought for us had Clinton not cut the military's financial throat in his grand scheme to "balance the budget."
And I didn't hear any damned whining when US troops were sent to Kosovo with "inferior" body armor. OH, but Tralierpark Bill sent THEM ......