Army scrambling for armor answers
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The US Army thought the makers of up-armored Humvees were producing the vehicles at their maximum rate, a service spokeswoman said Friday.
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS  Contact: Mickey Morales of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, +1-410-436-2583, +1-410-322-8495 (Mobile), miguel.l.morales@us.army.mil   ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S.
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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When U.S. soldiers need expert engineering advice -- like how to gauge the structural integrity of a bombed-out bridge in a battle zone -- they contact the Army's crack squad for quick answers. Michelle Delio reports from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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Tom Briggs was surprised to hear Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cite capacity constraints to explain the shortage of vehicle armor in Iraq.
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The US Army is looking into why up to 19 reservists with a supply platoon in Iraq refused to complete a mission. Relatives of the soldiers claim that the troops felt the job was too dangerous and their vehicles were unsafe for the mission.
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The military is ordering more lightweight armor developed in Ohio that protects troops in Humvees from automatic weapons fire and grenades without slowing the vehicles.
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Body and vehicle armor company Armor Holdings Inc. said Friday it was selected as one of the companies to receive a Defense Department ceramic body armor contract that could be worth up to $461 million over 36 months.
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Second order for MRAP armored vehicles goes to a surprise winner.
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Inventors across the country are being asked to find a way to lighten the load U.S. soldiers carry on their backs -- largely due to the high-tech gear that uses batteries -- and the solution will be decided in a $1 million contest.
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The army is seeking more production  of the most fully armor-protected "Humvee" military vehicles,  defense officials said on Friday, after a soldier's complaint  to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that troops had to use  scrap metal to protect vehicles in Iraq.
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After the Korean War, the Army gave up pack animals for trucks, planes and choppers to transport troops and equipment. But recently -- remember those folks on horseback routing the Taliban in Afghanistan? -- it's become clear that Special Forces might find themselves needing horses, mules and...
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The US Army has asked the company that is producing fully armored Humvees to expand the Armyâs order to 550 per month, an increase of 100 a month, NBC News learned Friday.
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The military is ordering more lightweight armor developed in Ohio that protects troops in Humvees from automatic weapons fire and grenades without slowing the vehicles. Unarmored Humvees have become targets in the war in Iraq.
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Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Marine Corps, which are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply the extra forces, U.S. officials said.
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The soldier who made headlines Thursday by challenging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the lack of armor for military vehicles prepared his question with the help of an embedded reporter, according to an e-mail the reporter sent to his colleagues
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When the Black Watch battle group made their move north, there was an &quot;intelligence vacuum&quot; in the area according to an army source here; they did not know exactly what they would face.