Sunday, January 29, 2006

A Bake Sale For Body Armor


I found this bumper sticker over at the Bring It On location. Here, you can buy said bumper sticker and the proceeds actually go to helping our troops instead of fattening the wallets of another war-time-profiteer.

This gives us cause to rethink tired slogan, "I can't wait for the day when the Airforce has to hold a bake sale for a bomber, and Education gets all the cash it needs." One of the commentators over at BIO said it well: " Sometimes we go to war with the Secretary of Defense we have and not the one we wished we had."

4 comments:

Neil Shakespeare said...

How many bumperstickers for a set of body armor? Must be a helluva lot of bumperstickers...

enigma4ever said...

Neil asked the same question I was thinking...Great idea though...really really disturbing...and I kept wondering all day WHICH body armor Bob W and his camera guy had on...

michael the tubthumper said...

the US spends about the same annually on arms that the rest of the world combined does and yet body armour doen't seem to be a prioroty

WTF?

Anonymous said...


Body armor is good if you walk on your hands

Against IEDs, roadside bombs, the explosion comes from below in dirt and rocks. The Kpot is not much protection against these devices. Roadside bombs scale nicely (dig a bigger hole) and they have good containment. The earth below isn't going anywhere, all the force is directed 'up.'