US Army welders improvise to keep troops from harm

A good read about some real heroic welders (Tip of the hat to the LA Times)

Out by the dusty lots where the Army's Second Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment parks its trucks and tanks is the welder's shop, a gritty oven where Butler and his colleagues have spent much of the year sweating over better ways to protect US troops.

Part craftsman, part grease monkey, Butler plays a vital if sometimes overlooked role in a place where an extra panel of steel or the right weld can mean the difference between a severed limb and merely a loud thump...

Go over to the Times site and read the rest.