once again ANOTHER egregious act

by our government. a firm who manufactured helmets for our armed forces f**ked up. they were defective. the government sued them, they had to pay (a mere pittance i might add). then what happened you're wondering to yourselves???????????????

well OUR government turned around and AWARDED THEM A $74,000,000 CONTRACT TO MAKE NEW HELMETS
that's just F**KED UP

U.S. helmet maker settles suit over helmets' quality
By Bruce Lambert
A North Dakota manufacturer has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a suit alleging that it had repeatedly shortchanged the armor in up to 2.2 million helmets for the military, including helmets for the first troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Twelve days before the settlement with the Justice Department was announced, the company, Sioux Manufacturing of Fort Totten, was given a new contract of up to $74 million to make more armor for helmets to replace the old ones, which were made from the late 1980s to last year.
Sioux upgraded its looms in 2006, company executives say, and the government says it has started inspections at the plant.
The U.S. attorney for North Dakota, Drew Wrigley, called the accord "an appropriate resolution" because the Defense Department had said that 200 sample helmets passed ballistic tests and that it "has no information of injuries or deaths due to inadequate PASGT helmet protection.".........