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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />"ll /\ <br />J(il -" 1-..' <br />I~ i1{" ! ( <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Flawed <br />vests fatal <br />f9f malll <br />Marines <br /> <br />Pentagon finds armor <br />available since 2003 could <br />nave saVed troops in Iraq <br /> <br />BY MICHAEL MOSS <br />New York Times <br /> <br />A secret Pentagon slndy has found <br />that as many as 80 percent of the <br />Marines who have been killed in Iraq <br />from wounds to theb' upper body could <br />have sur~ved if they had been wearing, <br />extrfhQiliJarmor. <br />s~mor has been available since <br />2003, but until recently the Pentagon <br />has larZe1y declined to supply it to <br />troop1f'Cle1l!llte calls from the field for <br />additional protection, according to mili- <br />tary officialS. <br />The ceramic plates in vests now <br />worn by the majority of troops in Iraq <br />cover only some of the chest and back. <br />In at least 74 of the 9:) fata! wounds that <br />werealla!yzed in the pentagon study of <br />Marines from March 2003 through June <br />2005, ~\illets and shrapnel struck the. <br />Marin~s' shoulderj3, ,j3ides or areas of <br />, the torso where the'plates do not reach. <br />Thirty-one of the deadly wounds <br />struck the, chest or back-so close to the <br />plates that simplY enlarging the exist- <br />ing shieids"would have had the poten- <br />tiai to alter therata! outcome," accord' <br />ing to tlie study, which Was obtainedl:)y <br />the New York Times, ._ . '.. ." ,t. . <br />The study by the military's medical. <br />'.. examiner shows the cost in lost lives <br />\-.""_~"_ :":.J_.'t.. c- ........ .. ." <br />'~lj~;qfu tuadequate armor, even as ,the <br />ARMOR FLAWED, 9A <br /> <br />,~_. <br /> <br />,.-.,,""' l/~Il, <br />1../ \..."' <br /> <br />I,: \ / <br />'I ,,\Jt~ <br /> <br /> <br />)> <br />Z <br />C <br />)> <br />;;<J <br />-< <br /> <br />CJ:' <br />c:: <br />..". <br />- <br /> <br />;:: <br />z <br />z <br />... <br />In <br />o <br />... <br />>. <br />In <br />~ <br /> <br />:z <br />n"'I <br />(",oo"lo <br />..". <br /> <br />-' <br />n <br /> <br />