[spunkets]

"Only one side of the story has been told."

You don't get to tell the other side of the story. The vest is trash, since it was hit with shrapnel a year prior when the soldier was in the explosion.

[Eagles Talon IV]

"You don't get to tell the other side of the story. The vest is trash, since it was hit with shrapnel a year prior when the soldier was in the explosion."

What you are saying in fact is the other side of the story, as you understand it. However the problem is it came from the soldier and not the military command involved.