{"id":22987,"date":"2011-04-18T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2011-04-18T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:55:15","slug":"larger-helmets-may-protect-soldiers-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22987","title":{"rendered":"Larger helmets may protect soldiers better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i5.photobucket.com\/albums\/y153\/Combatmix\/dark_helmet_angry.jpg?t=1238169307\" alt=\"Larger helmet\" width=\"501\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2011-04-17-army-helmets-brain-injury.htm\">USAToday<\/a> reports that brain injury experts may recommend larger helmets for troops to protect them from IED blasts;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Concussions are a common wound among troops knocked about inside armored vehicles or flung to the ground while on foot patrols by an explosion from a roadside bomb, or improvised explosive device (IED). The study\u2019s findings offer an answer drawn from equipment the Army already has, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what appears to be an off-the-shelf solution,\u201d says William Moss, a Lawrence Livermore physicist who co-authored the study.<\/p>\n<p>Helmets normally weigh about 5\u00bd pounds. A size larger headgear would add about 4 ounces, Moss says. The study, which was funded by the Pentagon\u2019s Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) found that adding padding beyond an eighth of an inch provided slightly better protection&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If proof exists, do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAToday reports that brain injury experts may recommend larger helmets for troops to protect them &hellip; <a title=\"Larger helmets may protect soldiers better\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22987\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Larger helmets may protect soldiers better<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}