Do our troops have the same body armor that "saved" Bob Woodruff?

ABC anchor, cameraman treated in Germany
Woodruff's family hopeful after brain swelling goes down



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11086342/

LANDSTUHL, Germany - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Monday, after treatment in Iraq that included surgeons removing shrapnel from Woodruff’s head and neck.

The two journalists were seriously injured when a roadside bomb exploded Sunday while they stood in the open hatch of an Iraqi military vehicle.

“They’re both very seriously injured, but stable,” said Col. Bryan Gamble, commander of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in western Germany. He said both men were heavily sedated and under the care of the hospital’s trauma team.

Their body armor likely saved them, “otherwise these would have been fatal wounds,” Gamble said.

Or is it too sensitive, ehm, irrelevant?