As usual, the readers of Kit Up! provide awesome insight and added value to one of our posts.
On yesterday’s piece about the WikiLeaks citation of a guy getting wacked by a sniper in the chest and the round not penetrating, we got a couple great first-person comments and a link to a really well done History Channel package on that medic who got shot and got back up and treated the Iraq sh&t bag who tried to kill him.
Willie writes how he was sold on the heavy, hot body armor (which at the time he was writing about, was still a pretty Gucci item)…
I was in Iraq in 2003 with the 173rd Airborne. We all complained about body armor and heat till we saw a squad mate’s SAPI plate stop two consecutive rounds of 7.62×39 at a range of about 4m.
And JAV knows what they mean when they say “multi-hit protection”…
While I was in Iraq in 2008, a guy from my unit was hit from close range by four 5.56 rounds fired by an Iraqi soldier who went for the AQ bonus money. 3 hit the plate in the back of his vest and did not penetrate. The fourth round entered under the left arm and exited the left chest. He was back on duty in a month.
Unbelievable…And Lucas zaps us the link to this awesome video deconstructing the shot seen round the world (I love the panicking insurgents talking on the camera…I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be them)…
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Nothing like keeping the terrorists scared to death; keep it up out there!
Hee hee hee! I like that! Now, I will add this……wiki leaks is stupid. That s putting it mildly. War is war.It is dirty, disgusting, and inhuman. Any known atrocity known to man happens in a war. Some soldiers do take it too far sometimes. But, with the soldiers I have spoken too and met, performing humane actions on enemy prisoners is a way of life. When I see soldiers detaining enemy combatants, I see nothing but the rules of war being followed. When I read some of the leaked documents, I see stories of compassion and humane treatment of a population. But, as I said, war is war. And for wiki leaks to have made statements like they did painting my country as the monster in the house is just wrong. Maybe the wiki leaks founder needs to see real combat from a soldiers view point….and maybe he will change his mind.
I admire the guy, but treating your enemies wounds is seen as weakness by our enemies, not a strength. I would have unloaded that .50 into the van. Help America, kill a terrorist.
Yeahh, I give them all the credit in the world. I don't think I would have been able to be so dutiful; that van would've looked like a slaughterhouse inside.
Captive enemies provide for more usable Intel than bullet ridden corpses. A live prisoner is a source of information, a dead enemy combatant is a mess you are expected to clean up.
Please take a look at CBA's new super light weight plates..easily stops .223 ie 5.56x45mm and even .308 calibur on military.com / equipment ;thank you.