Coop, You're Freaking Me Out

as i mentioned, anderson cooper 360 is my new background noise. and coop is out there working, what appears to be 24 hours a day (i wonder if they pay him overtime, i wonder if i should care). out there being in lebanon, israel and its environs. i mean, he is really working the region. props, coop! but what's with the bulletproof jacket? you're scaring me a little there, coop. is the jacket supposed to keep us from forgetting that there is a war going on; or are we to expect that at any moment coop will be thrown to the ground, grabbing his chest and shouting i'm okay, after being caught in the crossfire, because he is that close to the action?