WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- Fewer US troops have been killed or wounded by roadside bombings while in the new mine-resistant vehicles, US Defense Secretary

By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Few troops have been killed or wounded by roadside bomb attacks in Iraq while riding in new armored vehicles, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, evidence of the value of the vehicles he made the military's top priority.
In about 150 attacks, 6% of U.S. troops have been injured or killed while in Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, including six deaths, Gates said. Humvees, the military's main vehicle, have had a 22% casualty rate. Even attacks on Abrams tanks are more than twice as likely to produce casualties than attacks on MRAPs, he said.
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