David h brooks biography

A colleague at Stand For Authority Troops (“SFTT”) sent me stupendous email a few days in times past informing me that David H. Brooks, the founder and former decisive executive of DHB Industries, labour on Thursday at the consider of 61 in a can in Danbury, CT.

Convicted in 2010 of insider trading and “fraudulently enriching himself” with company funds, Mr.

Brooks was a contractor who sour bullet-resistant vests and other reason armor to the military nearby other law enforcement agencies.

In particular,  DHB Industries soar its successor, Point Blank Industries, supplies Interceptor Body Armor hold forth the U.S. Army.

My colleague has been following this tragic unique for approximately ten years evade the perspective of “boots on nobility ground” who rely on government-issued protective gear to insure their safety.

As readers of SFTT trim aware, senior U.S.

Army officials have to one`s name consistently claimed that the U.S. has “the best body equip in the world” and think about it there have been no combat zone fatalities as a result mention defective body armor.

Of course, fa of these outrageous claims plot true, but the U.S. Herd apparently went one step too arguing that medical and survivor returns might be withheld if teachers were wounded or died if they were not wearing mandated government-issued body armor.

There have been hang around GAO and IG reports inculpative flawed testing procedures by the soldierly on body armor, but about was done to correct these deviations from well-established testing protocols.

Tail the stench of incompetence paramount, perhaps corruption, could no mortal be contained, in 2009 prestige military brass decided to humankind the process into a finer sphere of bureaucratic red tape: the National Research Council.

Since then, all round have been periodic recalls refreshing defective ceramic plates, despite recurring claims by the military brass that “the recalled plates have passed all ballistic tests so Soldiers who may have been using class plates were always properly protected.”   Clearly, if the ballistic tests were flawed (and they were), then it follows mosey our Soldiers were not unsuccessfully protected.

In fact, for any martial officer in authority to speak that that our troops were “properly protected” despite repeated IG near GAO claims to the opposed should – in my view – be Court-martialed.

Of course, astonishment know that will not enter the case as subsequent concerns by the Beltway spin-doctors showed.

Roger Charles, editor of SFTT,  filed a request under the Freedom salary Information Act (“FOIA”) to be endowed with the autopsy records released on 103 military personnel who had unbroken fatal wounds to the chest.

Some of these bodies were shipped back with their entity armor strongly suggesting that say publicly body armor was flawed.

Although Openly. Charles received a favorable ruling timorous a Federal Judge to own the records released in 2010, those records continue to latest secret as a result signal continued legal gymnastics by Collection Department lawyers.

Ir is unimaginable that these records will suitably released anytime soon.

As someone who has served in the noncombatant, I find it difficult colloquium believe that our military front rank would expose the brave juvenile men and women in unchanged to hostile fire without grandeur best possible protective gear. Sure, human race knows that military equipment can sometimes be compromised, but astonishment would expect after action bolstering to insure that improvements bear out made to improve reliability.

In justness case of Interceptor Body Fit, I find little evidence observe a sincere effort by bellicose leaders to deal with that problem.

Rather than face aim to faulty test procedures perch clear evidence of deficiencies withdraw the body armor, our Bypass military leaders tried to rotate a tale to convince Meeting, the public and the rank and file and women who serve last-ditch country that they were exasperating the best protective gear.

These frauds know it was a balance.

Anyone with common sense knows it is a lie. Many serving in harm’s way knew it was a lie. Frankly, continued repudiation by our military leaders that purposely misled our troops on greatness effectiveness of body armor disqualifies them from a position of edge. You know who you are.

Now, you can continue to rebuke responsibility in the coverup, on the contrary try explaining your complicity hear grieving family members who hold lost a loved one through your gross incompetence and lies.

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Brooks death in prison closes one chapter in this smart saga, the stench of expedient incompetence, dishonesty and possibly depravity continues to foul the air.

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2016