Friday, February 08, 2008
Less than $1 per defective helmet
In the ultimate balance, this could be seen as the value of a soldiers life to this Republican administration.
h/t to Bad Attitudes
A North Dakota manufacturer has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a suit saying it had repeatedly shortchanged the armor in up to 2.2 million helmets for the military, including those for the first troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.With all the contract analysts having been forced out of this Pentagon, it is fair to imagine that the cost of the settlement was added into the contract to replace the helmets that weren't made right in the first place. Mustn't interfere with the march of commerce, you know.
Twelve days before the settlement with the Justice Department was announced, the company, Sioux Manufacturing of Fort Totten, was given a new contract of up to $74 million to make more armor for helmets to replace the old ones, which were made from the late 1980s to last year.
h/t to Bad Attitudes
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