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Old 05-21-2007, 11:19   #12
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Originally Posted by VMI_Marine
The blog is a joint effort by VMI grads representing all four services, although the Marine Corps has two reps to the other services' one each. Like I told LTC Masters, Pinnacle, SFTT et al set off warning bells in my head months ago, and I finally decided to start fighting the hype.

Interestingly, Dr Roberts is an active member of Lightfighter (DocGKR), so he is aware of the discussion on this board but has yet to respond.
Good to see such an alumni organization get together.

Frankly, I am amazed at the number of otherwise intelligent people who have bought into this Dragon Skin BS. The armor may eventually be a great product, but given its weight, expense, lack of integrity under typical environmental conditions, and inability to stop threat rounds in formal testing, I would put it in the "not yet ready for prime time" category. This is not to mention the scurrilous conduct by the vendor and delivery of fraudently marked, marketed and defective product to military organizations. I hope that Allan Bain quickly comes up with a great new product that saves lives.

GKR is a member of this board as well, but thus far, appears to prefer to let his minions and sycophants do his arguing for him.

Thanks for your feedback.

TR
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