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Folks: Please remember that you are REQUESTING, not ordering, an upgrade kit. If you're requesting replacement pads, please tell us exactly WHY you need your GI pads replaced.

In the meantime: PEO Soldier tells us they have not had a single complaint about the helmet/pad 'system' either from Soldiers in the field or during post-deployment debriefing. Therefore, they will continue to field the 'bricks' you are asking us to upgrade with the top-of-the-line pads we provide, courtesy of the American public. Our feeling is that either someone is not passing the Word or else we had a front-loader of BS heaped on us at the meeting.

Will SOMEONE have the guts to go up the chain of command or directly to PEO Soldier and tell them what's really happening inside their brain bucket? You can email PEO Soldier's Project Manager for Soldier Equipment at john.mcguiness@us.army.mil Unless PEO Soldier hears from the individual trooper or unit in combat, nothing will change and troops will keep taking their helmet off to relieve the headache caused by too-firm pads. That's unacceptable! We want ALL our troops protected to the best of America's ability to provide head/brain protection that's wearable.

Here's an on-line site for your frank opinion about the Team Wendy pads: Team Wendy pad survey.  Remember, the Army won't do anything unless they can determine there's a problem with the current GI 'shrink-wrapped rocks' in your helmet. Help yourself and your buddies out and take the survey and encourage others to do so as well. Strictly confidential as to who is taking the survey.