Dragon skin body armour, and it's Pentagon ban for US forces personel.

[Rhys Gethin]

Dear Signs team, I have just come across a post on YouTube, regarding the US government's ban on a revolutionary new body armour, called Dragon Skin, by US forces personel. The ban came into force, one month before the Pentagon even officially tested the new body armour. Stange you may ask? Not really, when the man resonsible for testing and procurement, and resonsible for instigating the ban has subsiquently, left the US army and gone to work for the company who produce the present body armour system, called "Interceptor", which uses 10 year old technology.
The original designer of interceptor, has described Dragon Skin as "two steps ahead" of the present intercepter body armour.
An independant inquiry and testing commisioned by NBC News has found that Dragon Skin is far superior to any other bodyarmour available. Period.
The group headed by, Roger Charles, "Soldiers for Truth" have been campaigning for two years for the introduction of Dragonskin.
Even the CIA have tested Dragonskin and use it on operations.
It's another example of the Corperate/military hypocracy. Second rate equiptment for the mass of ordinary soldiers while "those in the know", i.e., the CIA and their lackys get the far superior equiptment. Keep it cheap for the Grunts, whilst taking corperate backhanders. Check it out for yourselves. www.youtube.com The shocking truth about Dragon Skin.

 

[Joe]

This is a tricky one. If a person is against the illegal Iraq invasion in general, and if we have evidence that a significant percentage of US soldiers have been ponerized and are murdering innocent Iraqis, how can we support a call for better armour for US soldiers in Iraq? While soldiers have been deceived by their political and military leaders over their role in Iraq, do they still not have some responsibility for their actions? If so, why would we attempt to buffer them against the reality that they are being used to commit genocide against an innocent people and themselves are being used as cannon fodder to achieve the geo-political aims of their leaders - psychopaths who care nothing for their welfare?

It seems to me that the more that this harsh reality intrudes on their lives, the sooner they will wake up to the truth of the situation.

Joe