Breakfast Links: Backpack Shield, Land Warrior & Generals Speak Out
Schools getting to be a tough place. The kids these days, with their guns. Well now, you can get the Backpack Shield! (via giz) This little 17″x12″ beauty fits all standard 18×12″ dome round top backpacks, which are… err… standard only on that website, I think. And they come in hot fashionable colors, which will surely impress the psychotic loony trying to shoot you. Is this the kinda thing that mom’s will send their boys to school with ensuring they’ll never get a date?
Sorta like the Army sending their soldiers to Iraq with the Land Warrior future soldier get up? (Did that phrase in anyway remind of of Justin’s Future Sex/LoveSounds thing?) Fortunately for the soldiers who, if you’ll recalled, soundly and roundly panned the Land Warrior project in testing they cut out some of the feature bloat as well as almost half the weight and aren’t making every soldier wear it. Oddly enough, they’re kinda coming around on it. Of course, the funding’s already been cut and the project is dead, more or less. Which means this is how it goes in the army… 1) Spend lots and lots of money on a project no one likes 2) Despite no one liking it send them into a real war with it 3) Finally when they come around and actually start liking it, cut all funding to the project. Nice. Efficient.
At least the Generals are finally saying something. The Army, like the Mafia, doesn’t like squealers and historically has never really had any. Till now. This presidency which loves to talk all about how much it supports the troops has had an unprecedented number of generals (now retired, natch) speak out publicly against the war. Wonder if it does anything.
