Have a friend looking for light weight, multi hit body armor for work here in Afghanistan. Anyone have any recommendations? I personally use Paraclete.
Thanks
Hello,
I experienced that during certain type of ops, body armour is more of a nuisance and is actually endandering one´s life more than protecting, like multiple days dismounted recce patrols, long covert humps for the OP etc., especially higher in the mountains. I personally would prefer to be lighter and able to really manouver with unit, not just drop like a bag of sh.t, and wait for CAS during the contact. I also think that this is the reason why we have so many casualties caused by IED´s, as most people drive around in vehicles, and it is more and more uncommon to do let´s say 20 clicks patrol on foot. I am talking mainly about rural A-stan. On the other side, I surely definately understand and appreciate wearing body armour for one day ops or ops with vehicles, or in urban areas. So my question is, what is your opinion? I think that GC should have a choice to allow his guys to go light if needed.
PS: I know this is not purpose of the author of the thread, but I did not want to start a new one when there already is a thread named like this.
There's a good conversation answering your question and offering quite a bit of Quiet Professional Opinion here:
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