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Originally Posted by Army5339
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.
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From what I've read about injuries as per body parts, body armor is definitely helping quite a bit. True, most casualties are from IED blasts. But does that necesarilly disprove body armor's effectiveness? We don't really hear a report every time a GI gets plinked in his SAPI, gets up and walks away. Perhaps the only way we'd be able to understand how much of a difference it makes if we just made guys go out in the field without it.