Lightweight body armor faces delays in reaching war zone

By Thom Shanker / The Bulletin
April 18, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Army has promised to lighten the soldier’s load, and nowhere more urgently than in eastern Afghanistan, where the unforgiving terrain tests the stamina of troops whose weapons, body armor, rucksacks and survival gear can weigh 130 pounds.

But an experiment to....

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