"Insane Bullet Proof Plate Test - Afghanistan"

Unbelievable! Where was the leadership? Someone should have been the responsible adult in this scenario stepped up and said "NO" or "STOP". This is the type of RISKY behavior that results in unnecessary injury and death.

This is why we have safety briefings....this and other reasons, but mainly this.

Watching this, I believe these are contractors doing this based on uniforms, t-shirts and the weapon. It does remind me of an experience in Germany in 1992. My company was one of two from our Brigade that got to travel to Berlin for a week of training. We were given the plastic bullets used for training in those constrained training areas. Since both companies were going to rotate training areas, I drove over to my partner to see how his training was going. He had a long look on his face and told me that two of his Soldiers had decided to see how well the Kevlar flak jackets would stop a plastic bullet. Instead of placing it around a tree or something, one Soldier shot the other Soldier while he was wearing the vest. The bullet penetrated the vest but not the skin. It still injured him and resulted in attention of all the wrong kinds.