Another lightning-fast response to battlefield conditions...
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U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan to get new side armor
Pentagon study found lack of plates cost many lives
Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Washington -- The Army announced Wednesday that it would soon start producing 230,000 sets of side armor plates and field them over the year to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan after a recently disclosed Pentagon study indicated such plates could have helped prevent scores of troop deaths since 2003.
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