The Army's top gear-buying office announced this week it has begun fielding an updated version of the Improved Outer Tactical Vest to Soldiers deploying to Afghanistan. The Gen. II IOTV incorporates ...

Whether a mission requires soft, concealable body armor or ballistic plates and pelvic protection, the Army’s new Modular Scalable Vest (MSV) has got soldiers covered. After its final field tests last ...

After Kevlar was invented, in 1965, protective vests became lighter and easier to wear as designers integrated the material ...

The Army is testing a redesigned, lighter torso protection piece for the body armor kit. (Army) And soldiers will get new eye protection that includes a transitioning lens for sunglasses. That’s ...

Wednesdays and weight vests go well together, no matter whether you’re doing an upper-body, lower-body or Murph-type workout. Here is what we did this Weight Vest Wednesday: Warm up with a half ...

For Blake Waldrop, protecting law enforcement isn’t just a job – it’s a mission borne out of personal tragedy. The founder of RMA Armament, Inc. in Centerville, Iowa, maker of bullet-proof vests, lost ...

The Army and Marine Corps have ordered the recall of more than 18,000 protective vests made by a unit of a Long Island company, saying yesterday that the vests failed to meet specifications in recent ...

FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif. -- While in the field, he wears a pair of trauma scissors tucked into his Army vest. The blue handles pop with color against the faded green and brown camouflage of his ...

The Eighth Circuit held that plaintiffs had adequately alleged that school resource officers lacked probable cause to arrest them; note that nothing in the court's decision casts doubt on the school's ...