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Originally Posted by Panther Al
Not to mention fresh bodies make excellent field expedient cover against small arms fire - as has been found out overseas by many a trooper. Just make sure to strip them of anything that might go boom first.
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When in desperate situation this has been done many times. I would have to agree with Leg with the ballistics of many guns, you would need to have cover several bodies deep to be effective.
Always made me laugh that the body armor that we were suppose to have we never trained with unless you were overseas. Even then it seemed to be always in short supply, much like desert chocolate chip cammy uniform or the later desert cammy uniform after they drop chocolate chips. Nothing like seeing formation of troops in desert uniforms with olive drab web gear, woodland bullet proof vests, and woodland kevlar helmet covers. Or the vehicle that were still painted in Woodland color because they didn't have enough paint to repaint them.
Then again it is amusing to see unit that have returned from in the Middle East and were lucky enough to bring back their equipment that still painted in the tan/browns for desert warfare. I still remember some Armories down are Lansing and Jackson for National Guard units still had vehicles that hadn't been repainted since 1st PG War. *shrug*