Coat of Armor ; Builder Makes Brutish Vehicles for Iraq's Mean Streets.

Columbia Daily Tribune › July 10, 2007

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PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. - Chris Berman was sitting in a Kuwait airport in 2004, waiting for the burned and dismembered bodies of four fellow Blackwater security contractors to arrive from Iraq so he could escort them home.

At that moment, he started thinking about building a vehicle that could have kept his comrades alive.

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Coat of Armor ; Builder Makes Brutish Vehicles for Iraq's Mean Streets.

After finishing his 90-day contract in Iraq with the North Carolina-based security company, Berman began building armored trucks in Kuwait that were specially designed for c...

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