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zander_0633 said:Well, then that would be impossible to fight a war!
Quite so.
zander_0633 said:Well, then that would be impossible to fight a war!
Cadet Seaman said:Maybe. Or maybe people have had the whole "bulletproof vest" mentality too long.
You'd need a soldier walking around in an EOD suit to have all around protection.
Whispering Death said:Well I'll play the devil's advocate here. I don't know the specifics of the report in question or even if it's real, but let's just go with it.
I mean, say that the report comes back and says that 100 guys where shot with 7.62 while wearing the body armor. 50 of them live because the vest stopped it. 50% of the people who would have died are now still alive, that's pretty damned good right? But say another 40 people died because they where shot in, say, the shoulder. And all you have to do it put this 1/2-LB attachment to the shoulders and all those other 40 people would still be alive too.
So under that theoretical situation it would seem the IBA is failing pretty bad because you could save 90% of your casualties if you just made one small fix!
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I'm just playing devil's advocate, but what is important to say is that it's always a ballance. Just because people with IBA on die doesn't mean it isn't doing it's job; but by the same token saying "well what we got is perfect and we can't wear full 100lb suits everywhere we go" is also an incorrect response.
zander_0633 said:So it is still up to individual to wear the shield?
zander_0633 said:How come?
Cadet Seaman said:Well in CAP/USAFAUX we aren't issued body armor to every person we may have it in supply, but I have a set of my own. Depending on what our AO is we get issued NBC gear and other such stuff.
Insight said:Why would CAP ever need body armor?
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