Specialist Thomas Wilson, a scout with a Tennessee National Guard unit scheduled to roll into Iraq this week, said soldiers had to scrounge through local landfills here for pieces of rusty scrap metal and bulletproof glass - what they called “hillbilly armor” - A senior officer in Specialist Wilson’s unit, Col. John Zimmerman, said later that 95 percent of the unit’s more than 300 trucks had insufficient armor.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told troops today that “you go to war with the Army you have.”
“I’m a soldier and I’ll do this on a bicycle if I have to, but we need help,” said Specialist Wilson, 31. Colonel Zimmerman said
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Specialist Thomas Wilson, a scout with a Tennessee National Guard unit scheduled to roll into Iraq this week, said soldiers had to scrounge through local landfills here for pieces of rusty scrap metal and bulletproof glass - what they called “hillbilly armor” - A senior officer in Specialist Wilson’s unit, Col. John Zimmerman, said later that 95 percent of the unit’s more than 300 trucks had insufficient armor.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told troops today that “you go to war with the Army you have.”
“I’m a soldier and I’ll do this on a bicycle if I have to, but we need help,” said Specialist Wilson, 31. Colonel Zimmerman said
Stumble it!
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