a Little too late....
I was watching the news tonight, and of course they are talking about Katrina and such, but they also had a special report on a life saving project the army and Uof D is working on, that might be in works by 2006, so of course i decided to watch it. The report stated that the army and U of D (university of Delaware) is creating what looks to be any day to day material, but what it really is, is body armor that will protect the soldiers body from bullets and shrapnel. The scientist that was helping with this project said that the soldiers would wear this Kevlar like they would a regular suit, it is durable and light, yet a bullet would not be able to pass through it. They did a test with an ice pick. The material, no matter how hard they stabbed it with the ice pic, would not rip teak, be poked through, it was basically indestructible. The news reporter said that many lives, and limbs would be saved if this project turns out for production in 2006.
my thought was this, why didn't the Army think of this project way ahead of time, or at least tried to get things in the works for 2005. It would have saved the life of my good friend mike, and a bunch of other soldiers. Sometimes i just don't get our world. There are probably millions of reasons why this project wasn't started until now, or it was even started a long time ago, it just hits a little too close to home to find out now that there is something coming that would have most likely saved not only my friends life, but many others who have died fighting the war.