Faith-based News for Extra-TerrestrialsCONTRACTOR WHO CHEATED TROOPS ON HELMETS AWARDED CONTRACT FOR MRAPS
Jon Soltz writes in with this:
...The Marines reported the other day that the delay in getting Mine Resistant Armor Protected (MRAP) vehicles led to the deaths of hundreds of Marines. They had sent an urgent request up the chain in 2005, asking for the heavily-armored MRAPs, only to be ignored by Donald Rumsfeld. To his credit, Rumsfeld's replacement, Secretary Robert Gates, did make acquisition of MRAPs a priority last year. However, we were quite disturbed to find that one of the companies awarded a contract to produce MRAPs was....Sioux Manufacturing.
That's right. On November 12, 2007, the Bismarck Tribune reported that Sioux, which was under litigation for cheating the troops out of helmets that met specifications, received one of three contracts to produce MRAPs for the troops. That's in addition to their multi-million contract to produce even more helmets.
The original article dealing with thefailure to provide MRAPs and the consequent hundreds of deaths is here [*]. John recommends we sign the petition at Vote.vets.org here: [*].