{"id":67515,"date":"2016-08-18T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67515"},"modified":"2016-08-18T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:15:52","slug":"todays-lesson-defective-people-make-defective-helmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67515","title":{"rendered":"Today’s lesson; defective people make defective helmets"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to The Hill<\/a>, the Justice Department released a report the other day that Federal Prison Industries (a work program for federal prisoners also known as UNICOR<\/a>) failed to successfully manufacture helmets for people actively engaged in combat;<\/p>\n

The helmets produced contained serious \u201cdeformities,\u201d according to the report, including \u201cballistic failures,\u201d \u201cblisters\u201d and \u201cexpired paint.\u201d They were also manufactured with “unauthorized methods.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cA surprise inspection by the [inspector general\u2019s office] and military personnel uncovered inmates \u2026 openly using improvised tools on the helmets, which damaged the helmets\u2019 ballistic material, and created the potential for the tools\u2019 use as weapons in the prison,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n

The inspector general also discovered “testing and quality control\u201d problems, as FPI \u201cpre-selected helmets for inspection,\u201d violating the terms of a Defense Department contract that called for random testing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I understand the need for the government to save money, but this isn’t an area for scrimping. Apparently, UNICOR is still manufacturing Body Armor<\/a> according to their website “to meet the correctional and law enforcement needs of our Federal customers.” No conflict of interest there, huh?<\/p>\n

Inspectors found no evidence of an incident involving the defective equipment that caused death or injury to someone using that equipment, according to The Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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