WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said on Thursday it was withdrawing some 16,400 sets of body armor, even though it considers them safe, because a Pentagon watchdog found that the designs had not ...

A soldier with the Army's 10th Mountain Division was knocked down by small-arms fire, got up, and continued his mission. Hit again by enemy fire, the infantryman got up a second time and continued his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a soldier takes an enemy round to his or her body armor and lives to fight another day, it's a good-news story for the ...

U.S. troops operating in Iraq and Afghanistan have the best body armor in the world, and the Army is constantly looking for ways to improve force protection, the general in charge of the program told ...

(AP) Female soldiers from Fort Campbell deploying to Afghanistan will field the first Army body armor that is shorter and better tailored specifically to fit women’s physiques. Members of a female ...

WASHINGTON — No U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan because their body armor was flawed and failed to protect them, a senior Army official said Thursday as the service defended how ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The National Research Council will convene specialists in committee form to consider ...

Last week’s NBC News Investigative Unit report about Army body armor has led the Senate Armed Services Committee to effectively order the Secretary of Defense to conduct a brand new, independent ...

At your request, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies established the Committee to Review the Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army to assess the ...