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| | Body armor saves U.S. lives in Iraq |
 | | With the armor, its the difference between being hit with a fist or with a knife, said Ben Gonzalez, chief of the emergency room at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, the largest U.S. Army hospital in the country, which treats the majority of wounded soldiers. |
 | | Weeks after the attack, he and Rodriguez still bore the outlines of their armor: The tops of their heads, protected by their Kevlar helmets, and their torsos, protected by their body armor, were unscathed. |
 | | Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, began investigating the Armys decision not to equip all troops deploying to Iraq with Interceptor body armor after learning that one of his students, reservist Richard Murphy, was in the country with a Vietnam-era flak jacket. |
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