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[razorjak]

Isn't this nifty?

Soldiers are being threatened with disciplinary action AND the loss of their death benefits if they don't leave their superior, privately purchased body armour behind when deploying overseas.

Last I heard, a fair number of soldiers weren't even being ISSUED body armour. Now Big Brass is threatening them if they try to use gear they (or their families) have purchased themselves.

Discuss.

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[montieth.livejournal.com]

So far the guys on TankNet are calling this an over-hyping of some isolated issue/incident.

[raindrops.livejournal.com]

And so far, they don't appear to be any more or less objective than SFTT. Take that as you will.

All you have to do to seem truthful is to get people to agree that those who disagree with you are fringe-dwelling nutters. That way, whatever truth there might be is no longer the actual issue.

(Sun Tsu, contentious ground; also GWB, WMD)

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Except Manic Moran has a point about the fine print. I expect he knows, he dealt with the fine print as a platoon commander in Iraq for one deployment so far. We'll see, but I'd expect these guys to sniff something out if it were there. Especially Nick since he's still in.

[raindrops.livejournal.com]

I'll monitor that thread. Wasn't trying to seem bitchy... just that if my CO had told me that my loved ones were essentially as screwed as I would be if I bought it, I'd have been a bit put out.

War isn't about counting beans... it's about preserving a home that, even if you don't get to go back to it, you know in your last moment that it will still be there for the ones you went off for in the first place.

Or maybe that's just me.