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A secret Pentagon study into the war in Iraq is said to show that as many as 80 percent of US marines killed from upper body wounds could have lived if they had had suitable body armour. The New York Times newspaper quotes the report saying that such upper body armour had been available since 2003 but that the Pentagon had refused to supply troops with it. The report examined 93 soldiers with fatal wounds from the start of the war in 2003 until June last year and found that 74 of them with upper body wounds were not protected by armour plating.
A secret Pentagon study into the war in Iraq is said to show that as many as 80 percent of US marines killed from upper body wounds could have lived if they had had suitable body armour. The New York Times newspaper quotes the report saying that such upper body armour had been available since 2003 but that the Pentagon had refused to supply troops with it. The report examined 93 soldiers with fatal wounds from the start of the war in 2003 until June last year and found that 74 of them with upper body wounds were not protected by armour plating.