Helmet technology for the football field could help protect soldiers

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More than 300,000 service members have returned home with a traumatic brain injury since 9/11. Though the Pentagon says most cases are considered mild, in some cases those injuries have led to the degenerative brain disease CTE. Now, the U.S. military is taking lessons from an unlikely place: the football field. The military announced on Tuesday a contract aimed at redesigning Army and Marine Corps helmets to better protect troops from head trauma.

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