Simple steel plates as are so common in theater don't rate a Level III. Saying so gives a very wrong impression of the stuff welded, strapped, bolted, or wedged onto the vehicles.
Level III actually means something; it has a definition and has been tested. Scrap metal that may or may not work doesn't get a rating.
Guess we call that,.... Level IV stuff !!!
With the MSM as biased as they are....the Left Wing Eliteees trying every thing that they can think of, to damage Bush, including this ...latest crapola! What in the hell are the real facts,...is the Armor situation improving...or ...as ranger says....the Army playing a protection game...there is no way to tell at this end of the world.