Troops Still not Well Armored

Though the Army says all of its 35,000 vehicles on the roads of Iraq now have some sort of armor, 11,700 of them are protected with nothing more than crudely cut sheets of steel - inadequate by the Army's own standards, according to figures released April 8.
The Army intends to replace that armor, but the Pentagon says that job won't be done for five months. And the Army said April 8 that combat commanders have now requested 4,000 more armored humvees and trucks.