Airborne,
Putting these plastic icons of American culture into the crucible of combat is an excellent idea, though the test may have been a bit unrealistic.
Here is a proposed scenario for GI Joe:
GI Joe is stationed in Bosnia (any war-torn part of your back yard will do....). GI Joe will be equipped with a Level III tactical vest and Kevlar helmet, but he will have no defined mission or planned withdrawal date. Dig Joe a chest deep foxhole (GI Joe's chest, not yours...) and put him in it. Commence firing. Let's see that "tough guy .45" get through Joe's vest. Looks like you'll have to make the head shot or Joe gets to call in an airstrike on you.
Now for Ken:
Place Ken in the Barbie Corvette. Assume he has snagged Barbie's ride for the night and is trying to score some Peruvian marching powder somewhere in the bad side of your back yard. Position your Sig's muzzle at car door level, with the 'Vette perpendicular to you. As Ken tries to buy some blow, the deal goes bad and shots ring out. I suspect that the protection provided by the Corvette door and Ken's upper arm may well allow him to take a chest wound but still make it back to suburbia and into a Level 3 trauma center, where he survives his wounds.
Please take pictures as we will all want to see the results.
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TRAVELLER, SHOULD YOUR ROAD LEAD YOU TO SPARTA, TELL THEM THAT YOU SAW US LYING HERE AS THE LAWS WILLED IT.
-Inscritption on a Greek monument to Leonidas
[This message has been edited by Keystone (edited June 01, 2000).]
