More Troop Troubles

Vote Vet Poll Reveals Combat Troop Hardships:
From a poll of service men and women (via Taylor Marsh):

"# ...Veterans faced real challenges with equipment and supplies while in Iraq or Afghanistan.
# Nearly half of all veterans (42 percent) reported that their equipment did not meet the military standard that requires a unit to be at least 90 percent operational.
# Later deployments reported improvements in operational equipment: only 52 and 49 percent of veterans serving in 2003 and 2004 respectively reported their equipment was operational compared to 61 percent of those who served in 2005 and later.
# Thirty-five percent of veterans said their trucks were not up-armored at all and 10 percent said the trucks were up-armored with scrap metal
# One-fifth of veterans have been impacted by stop-loss regulations or extensions and the majority believes the Army and Marine Corps are overextended..."

Unfortunately, there's much more.