# Any progress in providing armor for U.S. troops in Iraq?

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**Created:** [March 14, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-progress-in-providing-armor-for-u-s-troops-in-iraq/348270 "2006-03-14T03:10:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-progress-in-providing-armor-for-u-s-troops-in-iraq/348270/1 "2006-03-14T03:10:27Z")

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Since all of the media frenzy over “hillbilly armor” and the like, it’s faded as an issue. Are we actually doing any better providing up-armored HMMVs and bulletproof vests for our troops? Or are they still buying vests from home and scrounging around Baghdad junkyards?