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The Pentagon held a briefing Monday in response to a story first aired last week by NBC News about military body armor. NBC’s report suggested an armored vest called Dragon Skin might provide better protection than the body armor the Army issues to soldiers, called Interceptor.
NBC commissioned an independent limited test in which Dragon Skin outperformed Interceptor under some conditions.
Today, the Army made public its own testing, asserting that Dragon Skin failed its tests and that Interceptor is the best armor available.
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Link to thisA number of viewers have asked why last night's investigative story on the use of corporate jets by members of Congress featured 6 Republicans and only one Democrat.
Our story was driven strictly by the numbers. We looked at an equal number of high-ranking Democrats and Republicans now in Congress and counted the number of flights taken on corporate jets over the last 5 years. What we found is that, among current members, the top fliers were mostly Republicans. The top three we mentioned had almost 100 flights or more. Sen. Harry Reid, the top Democrat in our survey, had 37 flights. Here are the numbers:
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