This is a stand alone "Penny Award" for a deserving safer military
helmet study, and at the same time I'd like to award an honorable mention to another blog, as well, the
Brain Injury Forum, which focuses on issues that pertain to brain injury incidence, including in our military.
I have taken an interest in searching out a variety of sources for information on this topic, after it was pointed out to me during a discussion of the voter fraud hoax in Crow Wing County that Monty Jensen and his associates are pressing for the denial of voting rights to brain injured disabled people. This would include hundreds of thousands of our veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. The Rand Corp., per the Brain Injury Forum, puts the number at 320,000 servicemen and women who are disabled to some degree by this kind of injury.
For the efforts to mitigate further traumatic brain injuries, a special Penny the lead investigator Raul Radovitzky, and his team at MIT, for the above study, which is set to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and for their continuing dedication to making a difference to our armed forces.
My brother was on a commission at the VA to get more head injury centers opened. 10 yrs ago they had 1 in the US. Now they have at least 6 maybe more. From talks with him it turns out that the new vehicles with the v wedge bottom, better helmets, and better body armor contribute to the rise in head injuries such as severe concussion, in a good way sort of. In past wars 70% or more of the soldiers suffering severe concussions would be killed in the blast, now the vehicles and armor are good enough they live through it but with bad head injuries that are not visible. Given the physics of an explosion I don't know that the severe concussion problem will ever go away until we start using some sort of full body armored suits like in starship troopers.
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