Clap real hard kids...

"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" Wilson asked. A big cheer arose from the approximately 2,300 soldiers in the cavernous hangar who assembled to see and hear the secretary of defense.

"You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up," Rumsfeld said.

The troops wish they were in tanks you supercilious son of a bitch!

Asked later about Wilson's complaint, the deputy commanding general of U.S. forces in Kuwait, Maj. Gen. Gary Speer, said in an interview that as far as he knows, every vehicle that is deploying to Iraq from Camp Buehring in Kuwait has at least "Level 3" armor. That means it at least has locally fabricated armor for its side panels, but not necessarily bulletproof windows or protection against explosions that penetrate the floorboard" Speer said he was not aware that soldiers were searching landfills for scrap metal and used bulletproof glass.

"Not Aware?!" I'm aware of that! God! They want us to "support the troops" when they aren't even trying. "Support The Troops hard enough kids and Sgt. Tinker might not get blown up! I can't hear you! The public just isn't supporting the troops enough! We want to see more magnets! You aren't supporting the troops enough! Poor Tinker just lost his leg! Bad public!". I guess we could send them all those yellow ribbon magnets over there and they could just pile those up on their vehicles.


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