From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:36:01 -0600, Robert G Lewis wrote:

>
> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.12.11.03.52.03.791195{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:07:45 -0600, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
>>> news:41b9c49d{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Seems the deeper story is that the question was either a plant by a
>>>> news reporter from the Chattanoga Times, or was actually from an
>>>> embedded reporter from the same newspaper.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> To me the real story is do our troops have the resources they need and
>>> is the  guard and reserve treated worse than the active duty troops. I
>>> could care less where the question came from. I only want to know the
>>> truth about the issues. Given the reports of the applause given the
>>> question I suspect there is at least some truth to the story.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bob Lewis
>>
>> Everyone wants more armor, that's simply a fact of life. Reality says
>> that not everyone gets to ride in a tank.
>>
>>
>
> reality also says they can't come home or leave the military. No one says
> they want a tank ( that I know of anyway). I wonder how the body armor
> situation is now.
>
> Bob Lewis

Probably pretty good - they'll have been cranking it out as fast as
possible for the past year plus.

I think the problem originally was simply that they began the war before
they had the new stuff fully deployed, and a lot of people were peeved that
they didn't get it first.

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