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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: unclewest who wrote (135416)6/3/2004 9:59:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
And you usually cannot get radios from different countries to talk to each other which was the case with Tillman's unit.

Now that's interesting.. I hadn't realized that they weren't all using SINCGARS..

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Can you document this?

But do you think that considerable blame shouldn't fall upon the company and battalion command for not properly coordinating patrolling activities in their AOR?

As for new body armor, I posted some interesting articles a while back on some of the new technology being explored that will make it even lighter, covering more of the body (arms and possibly legs), and more protective than existing models currently available:

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