Our Warriors Need Your Help
Both those in or deploying soon to
Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
Please remember and honor them every day.
With your help, we've sent over 47,000 helmet pad upgrade kits to our Heroes
|
Our Warriors Need Your Help |
|
How Do I Get A Kit? [Donate?] Folks: Please remember that you are REQUESTING, not ordering, an upgrade kit. If you're requesting replacement pads, please tell us exactly WHY you need your GI pads replaced. In the meantime: PEO Soldier tells us they have not had a single complaint about the helmet/pad 'system' either from Soldiers in the field or during post-deployment debriefing. Therefore, they will continue to field the 'bricks' you are asking us to upgrade with the top-of-the-line pads we provide, courtesy of the American public. Our feeling is that either someone is not passing the Word or else we had a front-loader of BS heaped on us at the meeting. Will SOMEONE have the guts to go up the chain of command or directly to PEO Soldier and tell them what's really happening inside their brain bucket? You can email PEO Soldier's Project Manager for Soldier Equipment at william.cole@us.army.mil Unless PEO Soldier hears from the individual trooper or unit in combat, nothing will change and troops will keep taking their helmet off to relieve the headache caused by too-firm pads. That's unacceptable! We want ALL our troops protected to the best of America's ability to provide head/brain protection that's wearable. Here's an on-line site for your frank opinion about the Team Wendy pads: Team Wendy pad survey. Remember, the Army won't do anything unless they can determine there's a problem with the current GI 'shrink-wrapped rocks' in your helmet. Help yourself and your buddies out and take the survey and encourage others to do so as well. Strictly confidential as to who is taking the survey.Click here to request an upgrade kit Note: if the link is not working, email your request to ophelm@operation-helmet.org Be aware: One of the inevitable characteristics of foam-based pads is that although their water content is very low, the pads may become rigid when exposed to freezing temps. However, body heat from the head should return pads to normal pliability within 3-5 minutes, or faster by exposing to a heat source...fire, heater, etc. (but not close enough to singe the pad's cloth cover or external camo cover). Let us know if you come up with a simpler solution; some troops report putting their pads in a sack/sock and sleeping with same to keep them warm or just leaving kevlars close enough to a heat source to accomplish the same thing without damaging pads or kevlar. If others in your unit need the helmet upgrade, send us the number needed (there is a field for this in the form) and one person's name and address to receive/distribute rather than sending multiple requests, please.
From Soldiers For
The Truth (www.sftt.org) -- Feedback Sought
on Personal Combat Equipment A
reporter with a national media outlet is currently researching a story on
personal combat equipment (including combat helmets). He wishes to communicate
with Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who have worn such
gear for sustained periods in tactical operations (to include convoy duty).
Confidentiality is guaranteed. | Please respond to
sftteditor@aol.com For our friends from the great white
north At present, we have available funds to outfit our warriors
going 'outside the wire' and more exposed to IED's and other forms of
blast/impact injury. We do NOT have enough funds to outfit everyone on base.
We ask those making requests to be realistic on how many really need the
upgrade.
Where possible, we send 'bulk' supplies of the kits to senior members (usually NCO's) of units. The men in charge of assigning
duties are the best qualified to distribute the kits to those most likely to
encounter the IED's and other form of blasts being hurled the way of our troops
day in and day out. Some enterprising troops have mobilized
friends, family, businesses to make 'dedicated' contributions to ensure they,
their unit or their service branch receive the helmet upgrades. We
appreciate that most families who make a 'dedicated' contribution add whatever
they can afford to help us provide the kits for troopers other than their own.
We honor all 'dedicated' donations.
If you have loved ones who need a helmet upgrade kit for
their own use or their entire unit or simply are looking for a way to help,
click here to contribute. |
Send mail to ophelm at
operationhelmet.org with questions or comments about Operation Helmet.
|
