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U.S. Army Testing Personal Cooling Suits
DJ BenBen writes to tell us that they Army is currently testing some 500 liquid cooled vests with Humvee crews in Iraq. From the article: "The Humvees with add-on armor were fitted with air conditioners after TARDEC engineers in Warren, Mich., were given the requirement to figure out how Soldiers in armored vehicles could be kept cool under the desert sun. Some of the same engineers had designed the add-on armor kits for the M-998 and M-1025 Humvees in theater. But with the extra armor and doors closed, temperatures inside the vehicles could reportedly reach more than 130 degrees. 'It's like putting somebody in a toaster oven on low heat,' said Charlie Bussee, an engineer at TARDEC."
Take an off the shelf cool suit vest with collar and cap (Waterblock) and connect it to a canteen (pump/reservoir), and then to a second cool suit vest(radiator) over your jacket/flackvest (case). You might connect a Peltier cooler, since the temp differential needed shouldn't exceed 50-60 degrees, Farenheit. A rechargable 12VDC pack for the cooler and pump, and you're DONE!
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well if you enlist in the usa army thinking you're not gonna be used to protect the american corporation's profits by killing innocent people .... you've missed a lot of stuff in the last 60 years ....
I used to think that US forces were happless victims, poor simple folk who only wanted an education and a job.
But after reading numerous accounts and opinions by US soldiers on message boards and such, I have come to the opinion, that US soldiers are merely willing mercenaries -blood thirsty ones at that.
Therefore, I no longer feel bad when I hear US soldiers have been horribly blown up or injured in Iraq. They are occupiers, they are there killing and murdering Iraqis, they shouldn't be there.
Feeling hot while on a patrol? Sucks to be you.
Being shot at all the time? You asked for it.
Getting blown to ragged chuncks of flesh getting to you? Well that's just too bad!
Of course the bad guys never want to think they are the bad guys. But face it, the US army is being the Nazis right now and anything they have coming to them, they've been asking for.
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