Do you think that wooden armor can stand up to an RPG? That’s the bet that the Filipino security forces made during their five-month struggle against the ISIS-affiliated terror group Abu Sayyaf when ...

The US sent Taiwan "mildewed" body armor and machine guns left in a cardboard box, the OIG said. About two-thirds of the military shipment was damaged by water as it sat for months at an airbase.

That included 120 pallets containing 500 wet and moldy tactical vests and "3,000 mildewed body armor plates," the watchdog ... that were dumped in a cardboard box without any wrapping.