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The wearing of 2-mm thick polycarbonate eye armor would have prevented 39% (49 of 126) of the eye injuries included in the cases of injuries sustained by our forces in Vietnam collected by the Wound Data and Munitions Effectiveness Team.
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Cotter et al. (1991) studied this question.
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