Operation Helmet
Operation Helmet
Help Save Our Heroes!
Over 6,000 free upgrade kits sent -FROM ALL OF US!
OPERATION HELMET provides helmet upgrade kits free of charge to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as to those ordered to deploy in the near future. Emails come in every day from Marines, their Navy medics and Air Force Special Ops and ground security forces as well as Army Reserve and Guard units asking for this added measure of protection they need, deserve and should have. In addition to providing enhanced blast protection, the helmet upgrades are much more comfortable and stable than the 'strap/sling' suspensions, allowing the trooper to concentrate on the job at hand rather than a blinding headache. A helmet is effective only when the troops will wear it!
Troops and their loved ones should not feel they aren't protected with the standard issue helmet. Our forces are issued head armor (kevlar helmets) that offers the best protection known in the Military from bullets and small frags. That was the main danger in previous combat engagements and is still an important defense now. However, new elements have entered the pictue,that of IED's (roadside bombs) and other explosives which these helmets were not designed to defend against.
The blast wave, large frag's carried thereon and the trooper being tumbled along the ground or inside a vehicle is producing brain injury ranging from concussion to death or permanent disability...if the blast is survivable. Without proper padding, the head becomes the "clapper in a bell" and the strap/sling suspended helmet itself strikes the head, resulting in every grade of head injury/brain damage from a concussion to death or disability.
Studies at Walter Reed Army Hospital show that blunt force head trauma cases outnumber penetrating head injuries significantly in troops with brain damage from OIF/OEF, especially from enemy action (IED's, etc) as well as vehicle accidents.
We depend on donations from the American public to purchase and ship the helmet upgrades to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other theaters of operation. The Military is short of money to do everything asked of it, so we all step up to the plate gladly and help provide our troops an additional measure of protection.