shows that questions are being raised over five million pieces of body armor that
the army has used in both iraq and afghanistan for the past ten years. the pentagon
report questions the reliability of five million pieces of body armor safety tests
were conducted with the wrong place they were inconsistent and two designs were
approved without any testing. approving body armor they didn't even bother
to test can't really say i'm not surprised now the audit gave in-depth information
about seven military contracts all for armor plates known as ballistic inserts and
in the report the inspector general wrote consequently the army cannot be sure of
the ballistic inserts meet requirements as
a result the army lacks assurance that five point one million ballistic inserts
acquired through the seven contracts provide appropriate protection and over the
course of the two years of the i.g.
investigated these inserts they noted that they did not conduct any tests on their
own regarding the...