Kevlar Boxers (Read 234 times)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd:

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• A British manufacturer, BCB International, is flourishing, buoyed by sales of its Kevlar underwear, at $65 a pair, to U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, soldiers and Marines must buy them directly; the "Bomb Boxers" are not supplied by the Pentagon even though nearly 10 percent of battlefield explosive-device injuries result in sometimes-catastrophic genital and rectal damage.

According to an October report in Talking Points Memo, the Pentagon's currently issued protection is inferior to BCB's but is less expensive.

(Although the Pentagon fully funds post-injury prostheses and colostomies, it could purchase about 7,700 Bomb Boxers for the price of a single Tomahawk missile.)

[Talking Points Memo, 10-18-2011]