Body Armor Follies, Re-Redux

"Go Jack Army weighs in on the protection/mobility trade-off.

I've seen the kevlar plates we had in 2003 can stop a direct hit with an AK-47 round - and probably quite a bit more than that. If you confine your analysis to soldiers who are wounded, that's not a complete picture of the effectiveness of the plates. You wind up ruling out a lot of fatalities that the plates prevented 100%, resulting in no more injury to the soldier than a good scare."
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Zarqawi fails to secure key alliances

"So goes Bill Roggio's report over at ThreatsWatch

And Mohammed is reporting that Iraqi insurgency groups are now engaging in open warfare against Al Qaeda."
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I'm still not buying any of this, time will tell.

I Knew Chief Welshofher.

"Chief Welshofher was a friend of mine.

Lynndie England, you're no Chief Welshofher.

Seriously, I did know Chief Welshofer when he was an intelligence warrant officer with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, working out of Al Asad. I was in charge of transporting two or three truckloads of detainees up to his crew every couple of days for the summer of 2003, and would get a chance to chat with him once a week or so.

On several occasions, if we captured a high profile target, we'd make a special trip up and it usually seemed to be Chief Welshofer waiting up for the guy.

Welshofer wasn't an easy interrogator. I've seen him work. But I've never seen him lay a hand on anyone, or harm anyone in any way. Of course, I was a commissioned officer, too, while he was a warrant - and I never saw him question a bigwig.

I never saw Chief Welshofer do or suggest anything that was illegal or unethical."
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What gets me is that the little fish are frying, while the big fish swim away.
And read this too, it has nothing to do with the war, but hey.

I almost forgot this:

Well, maybe it was a bad strike after all ...