The NYT fronts an internal Pentagon report concluding that 80 percent of marines who died from upper-torso wounds in Iraq could have been saved by larger body armor. The Marine Corps has known this since last June, yet did not place an order for the armor until September. (The report itself was held up for four months when the corps failed to pay a medical examiner $107,000 to examine the data.) The Army, for its part, has not even placed its order yet. Based on this report and other studies, the Times concludes that 300 of the 1,700 U.S. military fatalities in Iraq could have been averted with the new armor, which has been available since 2003.
from today's papers
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