The Army and Marine Corps yesterday issued a recall for more than 18,000 body armor vests that did not pass ballistic requirements when they were manufactured in 2000 and 2001.

The recall is in addition to the more than 5,000 Marine vests recalled in May after a Marine Corps Times investigation showed the vests had failed tests, yet were still approved and fielded to troops in the war zone.

Why would they let this happen at all? Money is the only thing I can think of. They might say they couldn't wait for more to be made, and maybe I'll buy that a bit, but I'm betting the decision was mostly based on money.

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