300 million for body armour but about 60 billion + for other military gear & supplies. The 40,000 additional peices of armour were for troups originally not felt likely to be in combat (supply, etc)...combat troups were well equiped. This was the US military ADAPTING to changing battlefield conditions. I submit Kerry was an impediment to this adaptation and again....was voting on the final bill..his earlier efforts to link tax hikes to funding had failed.
