© 2025 SDPB
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Urge the Senate to Protect Public Media Funding! Click HERE to find out how you can act!

Soldier's Question Puts Rumsfeld on Spot

In Kuwait, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld takes questions from U.S. soldiers bound for Iraq. Spc. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee Army National Guard asked the secretary why soldiers have to scrounge around in scrap piles to find material to armor their vehicles. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Michele Norris.

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Tags