Choice America Editorial

 BY SGT. KEVIN BENDERMAN

 

 

A disturbing report about the Pentagon's refusal to purchase a more effective type of body armor for our troops in combat is indicative of this administration's total lack of respect for the men and women who wear this nation's uniform.   This administration is unwilling to spend the money needed for the highest quality body armor, which should have been a standard part of the available equipment issued to our soldiers as they put their lives on the line for what now can be see as a war based on lies. 

 

But this administration is doling out cash by the handful to companies like Halliburton for contracts to rebuild what we have destroyed, with little accountability for where the money has gone and how it has been spent.   Think of that for a moment would you? 

 

This administration has demonstrated its priorities clearly by its refusal to purchase better equipment that would have saved lives while granting unprecedented contracts to its benefactor companies. 

 

This refusal came even after the Marine Corp paid over $100,000 for a study to see if indeed this equipment was more effective.  After the tests confirmed this, the Corp. made repeated requests for this type of more effective vests. 

 

Nothing was ever done and as a result, people who  placed "Duty, Honor, Country" before anything else were dishonored by men who have never seen a minute's worth of combat.  

 

They were dishonored and disrespected by men who, by their own admission, had more important things to do and could not be bothered with serving their country by wearing the uniform with honor. 

 

I have said it before and I will say it again, this administration is not worth the dust off of our troops' boots, much less the blood that they have shed or the lives they have given.