Operation Helmet-- for US Soldiers

[Pure]

Helmut padding upgrade. Private donations. (only in the US.) Donations from abroad accepted.

Better and thicker padding in order to protect the head from explosive blasts.

http://operation-helmet.org/index.html

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, sorry, I thought this was about handing out condoms to the soldiers in Iraq.

Which reminds me of something the political satirist Mark Russell said in a live concert the other night: In contemplating all the war brides brought home from WWII and Vietnam, he mused (which a big smile on his face) why there don't seem to have been any from Iraq.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I find it interesting that the US Army made such a big deal out of redesigning the helmet a few years ago, as if the old World War II steel pot could not have been made of Kevlar. As I recall, the old pot came with a helmet liner and webbing. I saw an article several years ago that proved the new and improved Kevlar Helmets cover exactly the same amount of head the old steel hemets did. This is improved? Now it turns out the padding in the new helmets is defective?

It seems to me it would have been a lot easier to simply add padding to the outside of the old helmet liner. At least the GIs would still have a pot to cook/piss/shave in.

Can you say, "BOONDOGGLE", Virginia?

 

[keeblercrumb]

I find it interesting that the US Army made such a big deal out of redesigning the helmet a few years ago, as if the old World War II steel pot could not have been made of Kevlar. As I recall, the old pot came with a helmet liner and webbing. I saw an article several years ago that proved the new and improved Kevlar Helmets cover exactly the same amount of head the old steel hemets did. This is improved? Now it turns out the padding in the new helmets is defective?

It seems to me it would have been a lot easier to simply add padding to the outside of the old helmet liner. At least the GIs would still have a pot to cook/piss/shave in.

Can you say, "BOONDOGGLE", Virginia?

Yeah... pretty much the same.... give or take a few kilo's.....

From my experience in the last war we lost, I would say the "pot to cook, piss and shave in" was much over rated... but the "pot" you smoked... now that was helpful...

-KC