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Gen-Z is in-vested in this latest fashion trend. The easily influenced generation can be seen wearing running vests during workouts, channeling their “running girlie” era.
Aircraft crew who may be equipped with new vests include those for the Marines' AH-1 Viper, UH-1 Venom, MV-22 Osprey, CH-53E Super Stallion and CH-53K King Stallion; and the Navy's MH-60 Seahawks.
The Marine Corps has started fielding a new plate carrier vest that features a more streamlined cut and offers a 25% weight savings over the vests Marines currently wear.. The new Plate Carrier ...
The push to create these new vests began in 2009 when the 101st Airborne Division ... "We, as a military, have to truly ... unlike the one-size-fits-all Gen II model. "I can actually ...
Marine body armor engineers share a glimpse of their new protective gear that features lighter weights, lighter plates and ...
The new vests were generously donated through a grant by the USMC/Combat Helicopter and Tiltrotor Association. Slick Katz, president of the association and BCSO Citizen Patrol Volunteer, said the ...
An Ohio sheriff was shooting video of New Year’s Eve celebratory gunfire when a bullet hit his cruiser, struck him in his chest and bounced off his bullet-proof vest.
The IOTV Conversion Kit takes the soft-armor, ballistic inserts from existing IOTV inventories and places them into a new carrier, creating the latest-generation vest. A Gen III IOTV ordered from ...
A mom fashions old military uniforms into weighted vests for her own child with autism as well as for others who could benefit from them. Skip to main content Skip to header navigation Icon Link ...
Maj. Gen. Valerie Jackson, the new commander of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Korea, speaks in a change-of-command ceremony held at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, about 60 kilometers south of Seoul ...
The Marine Corps is shrinking from a peak of about 202,000 service members at the height of the Afghanistan war in 2010 to no more than 182,100, and has launched a number of new, land-based crisis ...
Lt. Gen. Matthew Glavy, USMC’s deputy commandant for information, said the service is now drafting the Marine Corps Warfighting Publication-8, which will serve as a follow-up to MCDP-8.