Staff Sgt. Steven "Bryan" McQueen was shot in the head with a round fired from a truck-mounted machine gun in Afghanistan last year.
His Enhanced Combat Helmet stopped the bullet, saving his life in an insider attack that claimed the life of another soldier.
McQueen experienced a minor brain bleed, but no permanent damage.
The US Army presented his tattered helmet to him at a ceremony this week.

On the side of his wife, smiles turned serious when she was asked about seeing the helmet and the tangible results of the close call her husband experienced.
"I knew it was bad, I knew he had been shot. I was in shock when I saw it," she said. "If he wouldn't have had it on then he wouldn't have come home."
Waiting at home then, and attending the ceremony on Monday, were his daughter, age 8, and two sons, ages 6 years and 10 months.
It'll be a few years before McQueen thinks his children will fully understand this artifact from his tour, but it will fit prominently in his home and memory.


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The helmet below, that saved the Sgt. was bisected and mounted on a plaque with McQueen's name and the appropriate unit coinage, was presented to him.

His village people are still sleeping

Na usa na
Confirm bullet proof helmet
Once u see
Made is usa
U no say na confirm
If na lie ask apple