Bill Delahunt: “I met with families of Reservists and National Guard, military that are serving in Iraq currently. They have been…”

“I met with families of Reservists and National Guard, military that are serving in Iraq currently. They have been trained as a transportation unit. They are now serving in a different role that exposes them to great danger. They are using their own equipment, trucks that have no armor protection, that are open, that leave these men and women on the back of what I would call a large pickup vehicle as a sitting target. These families were outraged. One actually had to go to a military hardware store, presumably, to purchase for their son a $900 kevlar suit because the parents simply could not sleep at night. And it cost that family $400 to send it via the United States Post Office.”