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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."
..your taxes. I mean ultra modern suits that don't work, ultra modern PC-s and equipment that just makes everything harder to operate with rather than easier.. it's just suspicious tech firms milking the military department.
Because this is what war is used for, you know when the war starts, it better last long, cuz that's the time lots of people make LOOTS of money selling overhyped and overpriced gadgets to those poor soldiers.
Oh, and reminds me of a popular old story about NASA spending millions to invent a pen that works in zero gravity environment. They finally nailed it, but at quite the cost.. The alternative solution by the Russians? Use pencil.
Fuck you and fuck off, asshole. My best friend's little brother was killed in the north tower and I don't appreciate you presuming to speak for him, especially when I know where he would stand politically on issues like these, and believe me, that's nowhere near flag-waving rednecks like you.
No, the Mahdi Army uses those to wage Jihad.
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
You are correct. They should fill the vehicle with cool flowing water instead!
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
I am sorry if I have trouble understanding why shooting innocent civilians, occupying a foreign country and whinging about how being deservedly shot at has anything to do with my freedom.
Now, I can understand, if you were saying you got shot by rubber bullets by Jim Crow's goons on a civil rights march. Or got gassed while demanding the government try or release people who have been behind bars for years without trial. Or got shot while fighting for the right of self determination for the retched poor of the earth. I would really respect that, I really would.
I really, truly could understand your point, if your friend died while really fighting for civil liberties, justice and peace. Instead, you are using those words to justify a war to pacify a country that doesn't want anything to do with you or the US army, and has absolutely nothing to do with any freedoms that Americans or Europeans may or may not have. A country that has fought against it's dicators and occupiers before, and are simply continuing to do so. They have every right to bear arms for self determination.
In fact, it would be the exact thing that you (or me even) would do if we were in the same situation. You would not for one second suffer a foreign occupation, and would think those not doing anything about it were betraying their country.
So sorry about your and your friends family, but as I said, the bad guys want, really truly want to think they are fighting for a just cause -I mean, the Nazis thought they were slaughtering Russians for a just cause too.
But if you think about it, bombing the crap out of a small town in northern Iraq while doing horrible things to the people living there, or say, attacking the Mahdi army in Najaf has absolutely nothing to do with me surfing the web, commenting this post or any of the things you claim to be fighting for.
So I say again, STFU murderer and take what you have coming for you.
Perhaps you can vindicate yourself by demanding that (and perhaps fighting for) US troops to go home immediately.
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
I find it almost cool, that you would start out with a "you are not educated" and then proceed to fill your manic rant with spelling errors.
Oh, and STFU you murdering Nazi and get the fuck out of Iraq!
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig