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U.S. military members serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other dangerous areas will soon receive revamped armored vests that provide more side protection, senior officials said here today.
The vest changes are designed to prove effective in protecting servicemembers from shrapnel fragments, especially those who operate gun turrets atop vehicles, said Army Maj. Gen. Steven Speaks, the Army's director of force development.
"What we're seeing, obviously, is continuing evolutions in the nature of the threat that we face," General Speaks said. The shrapnel-producing improvised explosive devices and other terrorist weapons encountered by U.S. forces in Iraq have prompted changes in servicemembers' armored vests, he said.
Stepped improvements to armored vests are the result of continual adaptation in response to constantly changing enemy tactics, General Speaks said.
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