{"id":59,"date":"2006-01-25T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/who-supports-the-troops"},"modified":"2006-01-25T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T22:07:00","slug":"who-supports-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/who-supports-the-troops","title":{"rendered":"Who supports the troops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from the AP &#8211; TODAY<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON The U-S Army has contracted a southern California company to rush a 70-(m)million dollar emergency order of ceramic body armor to the front lines in Iraq.<br \/>The sole source-contract with Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne was approved last week.<\/p>\n<p>It comes on the heels of a Pentagon study that found side armor could have saved dozens of U-S lives in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The company is expected to begin shipping the armor plates in January and to complete the order by May or June.<\/p>\n<p>The Army is planning to buy a total of 230-thousand sets of the ceramic side plates.<\/p>\n<p>An Army spokesman say one company won&#8217;t be able to deliver that order in the time required, so additional vendors are being sought through an open-bid process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hello?  Who has been saying the troops need better armor?  And who has ignored that until 2006?  And when did we choose to invade Iraq?  You have to remember this is a was of CHOICE.. a choice to sacrifice our kids by starting the war and then not giving them proper equipment for YEARS !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from the AP &#8211; TODAY WASHINGTON The U-S Army has contracted a southern California company to rush a 70-(m)million dollar emergency order of ceramic body armor to the front lines in Iraq.The sole source-contract with Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne was approved last week. It comes on the heels of a Pentagon study that found side&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}