Pentagon Stocks Up on Body Bags
The St. Petersburg Times reports that in the last six months, the Pentagon has ordered 9,640 body bags.
"Right now, we're just replenishing supplies" in military warehouses, said Frank Johnson, a spokesman for the Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia. "It's not necessarily an indication of things to come." But two military suppliers said it is logical to assume that the government is anticipating battlefield casualties."
Here's something we didn't know: "The military shuns the term body bag, which gained widespread usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 American military personnel died. Instead, the military began calling them "human remains pouches" during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. They are made of vinyl and cost the government about $38 a pouch."
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