Photo: Jarod Behee is one of several thousand veterans who suffered a traumatic brain injury while in combat in Iraq.(ABC)Military Used Pigs In Blasts To Test Armor -- USA Today
WASHINGTON — Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury.
For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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My Comment: They must have gone through a lot of bacon.
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