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To: SandRat; Lurker
Body protection from IED fragments is required, but eye protection is also absolutely necessary. I was the test officer for some ballistic goggles for Army use 10 years ago. The size and speed of the fragments they would stop is classified, but the "powers to be" decided they were too expensive.
9 posted on 01/14/2006 6:57:48 AM PST by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: SLB
Seems to me some of those "PTB" types should be riding around in Baghdad with standard issue eye protection for a couple of weeks.

Permanent blindness might just give 'em a new outlook on the problem. (Hey, I made a funny...)

L

10 posted on 01/14/2006 7:02:19 AM PST by Lurker (You don't let a pack of wolves into the house just because they're related to the family dog.)
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To: SLB

Figures!!! And the Powers weren't wearing uniforms and probably never had.


11 posted on 01/14/2006 7:25:09 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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