According to Gizmag, underwear made of ballistic cloth, which will reduce wounds and injuries when soldiers are undermined by improvised explosive devices often used by militants in various hot spots, has been introduced into the US military. Americans followed the lead of the British, who
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A Marine with U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command
U.S. Army develops “Kevlar underpants” to protect soldiers' nether
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A Marine places his hand over the Kevlar of a battlefield cross
This is a representation of what I would have looked like in Iraq
Customized three different uniform loadouts based on conventional