This study fails when you considered that all the Taliban have beards and thousands of them have died.
My bull(*)(*)(*)(*) detector goes off when the only references that I can find to "Xegis Solutions" are all related to this "story" posted at different sites.
Up on the Governor should fit right in with this DoD Directive... Seriously, "Beards save lives?" Is this sarcasm or is the OP serious?