May 5, Military.com – (National) Army recalls some combat helmets. The Army has issued a recall of more than 30,000 helmets — not because the helmet shells are flawed, but because it found that four screws that attach the chinstrap and related parts did not meet Army specs. The screws were supplied by a subcontractor to helmet-maker Gentex Corp., according to the Army. In a press release issued May 4, the Army said Gentex is alleging the subcontractor falsified certificates of compliance for the steel screws it furnished for the helmets. In all, 34,218 Advanced Combat Helmets are being recalled for failing ballistic tests. The number includes 15,380 Army helmets, 12,000 Air Force helmets and another 6,838 helmets which were never issued by Defense Logistics Agency. Gentex is one of four companies that makes the helmets, and has delivered 297,000 of the 1.2 million that the Army has received, officials said. Source: http://www.military.com/news/article/army-recalls-some-combat-helmets.html
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After all the sport the Left had with the Humvee and body armor issues, it would be a shame to have them miss out on all the fun of corrupt war-profiteering accusations that they richly seem to deserve.
I got out of defense contracting. My company had a perfect record for quality and on time delivery. Time and again we got beat out by larger companies with higher priced bids for the same Item. After a while it became clear that the only way to really make decent money doing what I was doing was to “buy the project under the table”. Since I did not feel inclined to be a part of the problem or go broke being honest, I quit defense contracting all together. The buyers sometimes told us that they didn’t want to do business with a small company even on a small business set aside project. The system is so corrupt I decided I should not be a part of it. Strange to say, but I learned early on that you don’t get far working for crooks. And The government contracting was as crooked as the worst of the industry buying departments I ever contracted with. So morally I felt like it would be wrong for me to squander my life working for the crooks who appropriate our tax dollars through bribery, patronage, kickbacks, and graft.
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The next phase of “war protests”... selling the army defective equipment.
{Aid, comfort, enemies... is this treason?}