It's all Clinton's fault...yada, yada, yada. Get over it already. If a mother can buy these flak jackets, the US military and the DOD should be able to. This is pocket change to them.
Amen
It should be pocket change, but for a couple of reasons, it's not. First, the military is underfunded by probably $300 billion dollars. Second, every dollar that is spent must come from some account allocated, to the penny, by congress. Even if the Army had an unused $100 million elsewhere, they can't just spend it on body armor. They need permission to transfer funds, or new money allocated.
I don't like seeing it that way, even for "small" items, but that's the way it is.