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Originally Posted by Stan187
Not to mention that a lot less of those soldiers are getting severly wounded in the chest and vital organs because of advances in body armor.
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Most casualties now, IIRC, are from blast effects, which body armor does little to mitigate. IED's are a hard thing to mitigate because of the blast. Shrapnel is an added bonus because it reaches out more than the blast effect, but inside the blast radius, you are screwed. Also, body armor can only do so much against shrapnel from IEDs.