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  • CA: Lodi armor maker: Rumsfeld mistaken - Company ready, willing to expand output

    12/11/2004 10:48:39 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 24 replies · 1,123+ views
    Stockton Record ^ | 12/11/04 | Jeff Hood
    LODI -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apparently doesn't know they turn the lights off each night at Lodi's R.E. Services. Rumsfeld recently told disgruntled National Guard troops in Kuwait the reason there isn't more armor on military vehicles in Iraq is because it can't be made fast enough. "There's no capacity is what Rumsfeld said," said Mark Frater, chief executive officer at R.E. Services, which began making lightweight armor for military vehicles earlier this year. "I'm just running one shift. I've got capacity. I could run around the clock if they gave me the orders." Frater's company makes laminated plates...