Preserving Sight to Fight by Ensuring Effective Military Eye Protection
Despite the continued development of munitions that create new types of blast fragments that can injure eyes, evidenceopens NIH.gov indicates decreasing rates of eye injuries in the military. This is largely due to the Department of Defense’s efforts to ensure that service members wear protective eyewear that meets necessary ballistic-impact criteria through the development and continued updating of the Authorized Protective Eyewear List, commonly referred to as the APELopens Army.mil “The APEL was developed in 2006 to address high and increasing numbers of battlefield eye injuries,” said Dr.
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