The Latest Thing In Lead-Lined Jockey Shorts

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Ever dreaded going to a meeting where you expect to be chewed out? You'll want a pair of these (the link is subscriber-only; the text below is from the print edition):

Marines concerned about injuries to sensitive areas of the body [hee!] may someday have the option of special ballistic protection - as long as they don't mind lugging around more pounds.

The Marine Corps has developed a small number of armored shorts as a potential option to protect Marines in certain jobs from lower torso injuries due to small-arms fire and shrapnel from improvised explosives.

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A batch of the $1,500 armor shorts has been field-tested by turret gunners in Iraq. So far, the feedback is that they may be too heavy to be practical.

The oversized Kevlar shorts are worn over the cammies, covering a Marine from the waist to four to six inches above the knees. Because of their 11.5-pound weight, they include a harness that goes over the shoulders.
Sounds like my hockey pants!

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Remember earlier in the war, how all these rumors were flying around Baghdad about how the US troops had air-conditioned underwear, and how soldier's had X ray sunglasses for looking at women's underwear!!!

Incidentally, I linked DangerousLogic to my blog; I'm a technical moron, still struggling with how to figure out "trackback"

Later!

I wrote about something similar back in January of 2004:

http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/000413.html

And thanks!

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