From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:26:24 -0500, Steve Ewing wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:20:33 -0500, Jeff Shultz
>  wrote:
>
>> The stuff they have is so much better than what they used to have only
>> five years ago. And they're still improving it.
>
> I know the stuff *we* had was vintage, to say the least.  It had a pocket
> for a front and back steel plate, about maybe 10" square.  Of course, that
> was just for immediate reaction force stuff, not as who should say combat
> (and we still had M-14s, too).  That was prior to 1997, when I got out.

I was never issued stuff that had pockets in it (but I never had an M14
either). Basically the stuff I had was the step between the Vietnam-era
flak jackets and the new Interceptor stuff. I didn't mind it much, but I
wasn't expected to move around like the Infantry in it either.

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