I have been to Afghanistan and I've talked to many of those soldiers face to face and spent many sleepless nights over the past year making sure we had the right stuff there for our troops there.
We review those things every two weeks from top to bottom; it gets the top priority from my army engineering equipment staff. We have to be careful because sometimes soldiers take their own kit and they may get injured because they don't have the flash protection gloves we've already issued them. Soldiers may not be happy with load-carrying vests and they'll buy their own because they want them configurable, but they can't find any that are configurable on the civilian market. So we work very, very hard on finding really, really good kits. I think our personal kit is among the best in the world, but the soldiers have to use it.