Word: armoring
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...stories about the risks American soldiers were taking, about the kinds of injuries they were suffering and the new therapies the Army medical corps had developed to cope with them. Indeed, one of the differences about the Iraq conflict is that because of advances in battlefield medicine and body armor, a much greater ratio of the wounded are surviving in this war than in previous conflicts. Those are the soldiers we have written about again and again and the soldiers whom Blood Brothers is dedicated...
...produced just a handful of buildings--he was the kind of man who could imagine that a castle keep, complete with a few stray crenellations and slit windows that any medieval archer would appreciate, was just the thing for an art museum. You can't really add to an armor-plated canister like the one he provided in Denver. So Libeskind's addition is a freestanding structure. It connects to the Ponti with a glass bridge, a gray-toned exterior and a willingness to think differently but with happier results...
...other hand, because advances in body armor and field medicine have enabled soldiers to survive battlefield injuries that in earlier conflicts meant death, many of the new patients are arriving at VA hospitals with severe wounds. In response, the VA has set up four polytrauma centers around the country. Dawn Halfaker, a former Army captain who lost her right arm in Iraq, says negotiating the bureaucracy to get treatment for all her medical needs has been frustrating at times. She had to wait eight months for an appointment at the Washington hospital to get her teeth cleaned. Even...
...persisted in lobbying for better assignments. In 2003 she ditched the Budget Committee, which sounds more important than it is, to take a spot that had opened on Armed Services. She was one of the first in Congress to point out that U.S. forces in Iraq lack the armor they need. After 9/11, she became one of the Senate's loudest voices on homeland security, pointing to lapses in port inspections and voicing early criticism of border protection. She counts as her biggest accomplishment her role in securing $20 billion in aid for her state in the aftermath...
...Aitta Shaab, determined to capture and hold this normally scruffy village of tobacco farmers which is known for its strong support for Hizballah. But instead of encountering simple farmers, the Israeli troops came across some of the toughest guerrilla combatants in the Middle East. Armed with advanced anti-armor missiles and religious conviction, the small squads of Hizballah fighters holed up in Aitta Shaab thwarted the Israeli advance, destroying Merkava tanks and firing missiles into houses sheltering Israeli soldiers, killing or wounding those inside...