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| Ohio couple raise money to buy flak jacket for son in Iraq |
| 2003-11-27 |
| From Cleveland Plain Dealer web site - EFL ‘ Henrietta Township, Lorain County, OH - A couple helped raise $1,500 to buy the military’s best bulletproof vest to send their soldier son in Iraq because the government has not been able to get the vests to all troops. .... Nearly one-quarter of the 130,000 American troops in Iraq had not been issued the newest body armor as of last month. Delays in funding, production and shipping mean the last of the needed 30,000 sets of body armor won’t be delivered to Iraq until December - more than eight months after the war began. ... [the] parents got the idea to buy the armor after hearing news reports on several soldiers who credited Interceptor vests with saving their lives. The vests, which weigh 16 pounds, were introduced in 1999 and include removable ceramic plates in the front and back that can stop assault bullets such as the 7.62 mm rounds fired by Kalishnikov rifles common in Iraq and Afghanistan. Friends and family members in and around Lorain County’s Henrietta Township pitched in to raise the money. ’ I found this on the back pages of the local paper and wondered why it wasn’t front page news. |
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