Word: armoring
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...kids that have nowhere to go after school. May the New Year be a better year for working families that can’t afford health insurance. May the New Year be a better year for soldiers whose parents have to take out a loan to send them body armor in Iraq...
...freight containers holding 13 highly radioactive devices; on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Kim, president of South Korea's All Nations Co., was detained by Russian police for allegedly attempting to import undeclared items. The devices, according to Russian authorities, contained uranium 238, a metal used in the process of armor plating and the production of ammunition, although some experts say it could possibly be used to make dirty bombs. South Korean officials say the devices were to be used at a construction site...
...unit trained. Later in Kuwait, after Pitts learned that only soldiers could ask questions at the upcoming Rumsfeld meeting, he urged Wilson to come up with, as Wilson recalls, some "intelligent questions." Wilson decided on one after his convoy arrived at Camp Arijan. The camp had hundreds of fully armored vehicles waiting for a unit scheduled to arrive in July. When Wilson asked if the 278th could use them in the meantime, the answer was no. Wilson then devised a question about the shortage of armor and showed it to Pitts. Even though the reporter "suggested a less brash...
...soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles...
...Army's Armor Gap How a lack of safe combat vehicles put U.S. troops at risk...