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Don’t Buy Dragon Skin: PEO Soldier
By Colin Clark Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 5:08 pm
Posted in Land

The mother of a Marine called Army Brig. Gen. Peter Fuller Monday morning to ask why the Army wouldn’t provide her son with Dragon Skin body armor.

She “knew” it was better than the equipment provided by the Army and Marines so she bought it for her son out of her own pocket.

Fuller was straight with her: “Guess what. Dragonskin doesn’t work.”

This and other calls led him to tell me he had one message for the troops and their parents: Don’t Buy Dragon Skin. PEO Soldier has tested Dragon Skin and it just doesn’t stop bullets, he said. The problem is simple. “Somewhere out there is the perception that we are holding something back, that we have something hidden out back. No. We are providing them with the very best,” Fuller said.

Body armor, what Fuller calls the third rail of Army equipment for its political sensitivity, isn’t subject to the usual Pentagon processes since every parent watches what their son or daughter wears and has an opinion about how effective the armor is.


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