War on Terror

In the last few months, Congress has taken steps to support our troops in the fieldincluding:

Force Protection—The recently enacted war funding measure dramatically increases funding for body armor and hardening vehicles and facilities to protect our troops in the field. This latest installment builds on Congress’s record of providing substantial resources for force protection and troop survivability measures. Funding is included for the following:
Body Armor--$75 million was provided to purchase 47,000 additional sets of body armor. Over the last two years, more than $875 million has been provided to purchase over 548,000 sets of body armor for our troops.
Armored Vehicles--$767 million to armor a total 5559 Humvees, and $900 million is provided for add-on armor packages. In addition to funds in this bill, over the last two years we have provided $1.66 billion for approximately 7400 Up-Armored Humvees.

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