During the 1980s, the US military issued the PASGT kevlar vest, rated at NIJ level II.

Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops, oftentimes abbreviated to the acronym, PASGT ( pronounced " pass-get "), is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the mid-1980s until the mid-2000s ( decade ), when the helmet and vest were succeeded by the Lightweight Helmet, Modular Integrated Communications Helmet, and Interceptor body armor.

When used by itself, PASGT, refers to both the vest and helmet, together.

On the other hand, the PASGT vest was colloquially known as the " flak vest " by its wearers in the U. S. military.

A United States Navy Seabee ( US Navy ) | Construction Battalion sailor in October 2003 wears a PASGT vest and helmet as he qualifies with an M203 grenade launcher at Camp Hansen, in Okinawa, Japan.

The PASGT vest utilized Kevlar for the first time in United States military body armor, unlike the ballistic nylon that was used in the models of body armor that preceded it.

While generally incapable of stopping rifle bullets, the PASGT vest provided better protection against shrapnel and reduced the severity of injuries from small arms fire when compared to the M-69.

In order to provide protection against high velocity bullets, the PASGT vest was, in 1996, combined with the Interim Small Arms Protective Overvest ( ISAPO ) pending the adoption of Interceptor body armor.

The PASGT vest was replaced in U. S. military service by the Outer Tactical Vest of the Interceptor Body Armor system, which was, in turn, replaced by the Modular Tactical Vest, Improved Outer Tactical Vest, and Scalable Plate Carrier.

However, the PASGT vest still sees some limited use in the U. S. military as of the early 2010s, where it serves as one of many vests for sailors assigned to duty on board U. S. Navy vessels.

The PASGT helmet and vest used by United States military forces since the early 1980s both have Kevlar as a key component, as do their replacements.

The PASGT helmet was developed in 1975 and replaced the steel M1 helmet in U. S. military service during the 1980s.

The PASGT helmet was replaced in U. S. military service by the Lightweight Helmet and Modular Integrated Communications Helmet.

Although it was the second modern US body armor that was able to stop rifle caliber rounds and still be light enough to be worn by infantry soldiers in the field, it still had its flaws: " it was still heavier than the concurrently issued PASGT ( Personal Armor System for Ground Troops ) anti-fragmentation armor worn by regular infantry and ... did not have the same degree of ballistic protection around the neck and shoulders.

PASGT, is an acronym, standing for Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops.

In the U. S. military, the PASGT helmet was most commonly known by its wearers as simply, the " Kevlar ".

The PASGT helmet was also referred to by its wearers in the U. S. military, as the " K-pot ", similar in name to the colloquial nickname " steel pot " for the M1 steel helmet, which was in widespread U. S. military usage from the 1940s, to the 1980s.

The PASGT helmet was also, but less commonly, known by its wearers as the " Fritz " helmet, for its striking resemblance to the Stahlhelm helmet, which the standard helmet used by the military forces of Nazi Germany during much of World War II.

A PASGT armor system with overvest weighed more than and was criticized by many U. S. troops as unacceptably cumbersome in combat.

* Iraqi Army, surplus PASGT vests and helmets were given to the Iraqi Army by the United States, after the Iraqi military was re-formed during the early stages of the Iraq War.

The M1 helmet is a combat helmet that was used by the United States military from World War II until 1985, when it was succeeded by the PASGT helmet.

The M1 was phased out during the 1980s in favor of the PASGT helmet, which offered increased ergonomics and ballistic protection.

The PASGT helmet is also used by various SWAT teams, where it is oftentimes black in color, with or without covering.

United States Army soldiers from the Hawaii Army National Guard and United States Army Reserve wear their PASGT helmets during a military ceremony in March 2004.

While phased out as frontline body armor by the start of the Iraq War in 2003, it saw some limited wear and usage by United States military personnel during the early stages of the war, where some U. S. Army soldiers would utilize old PASGT vests as makeshift armor as protection for their vehicles in the absence of purpose-made, designated up-armor kits.

During the Great War, ' coalscuttle ' helmets ( similar to those in our world's German army of the World Wars ( Stahlhelm ) or the PASGT of today's army ) were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel.

The PASGT helmet is typically olive drab in color and can be fitted with cloth helmet covers, which come in a wide array of varying camouflage patterns, including, but not limited to, M81 Woodland, six-color desert, and three-color desert, solid black, for tactical police applications, as well as the U. S. Marine Corps's MARPAT and the U. S. Army's Universal Camouflage Pattern.

The Federal Police wears a uniform consisting of pixelated black and blue camouflage uniform similar to the US Army Combat Uniform Universal Camouflage Pattern, which includes a baseball cap, body armour and PASGT helmet.

Image: US soldiers wearing the PASGT helmet, Hawaii. jpg | PASGT helmet

The U. S. Army and Marines have continued to use a design akin to the PASGT helmet with the MICH TC-2000 Combat Helmet and Lightweight Helmet, respectively.

In December 2003, United States Army soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 4th Infantry Division ( United States ) | 4th Infantry Division, wear their PASGT helmets as they pull security on the streets of Al Hawijah, Iraq.

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Her other famous accessory is her belt, later partially replaced with a vest with many pockets.

The vest of Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops was the United States military's standard upper torso body armor from the mid-1980s up until the early 2000s ( decade ), when it was replaced by the Outer Tactical Vest of the Interceptor Body Armor system.

In 1975 Richard A. Armellino, the founder of American Body Armor, marketed an all Kevlar vest called the K-15, consisting of 15 layers of Kevlar that also included a 5 " × 8 " ballistic steel " Shok Plate " positioned vertically over the heart and was issued US Patent # 3, 971, 072 for this innovation.

In 1976, Richard Davis, founder of Second Chance Body Armor, designed the company's first all-Kevlar vest, the Model Y.

During the Korean War several new vests were produced for the United States military, including the M-1951, which made use of fibre-reinforced plastic or aluminium segments woven into a nylon vest.

The system's modularity is derived from the use of PALS webbing, rows of heavy-duty nylon stitched onto the vest as to allow for attachment of various MOLLE-compatible pouches and accessories.

On the left, the nylon vest.

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Devices used by military ( army, air force, special forces, marines, navy, coast guard ) and police and enforcement agencies generally have features not found on civilian or commercial models, for example compatibility with other worn kit ( e. g. survival vest, bulletproof vest / body armor, equipment harness, rappelling harness, parachute ) and use of ballistic nylon cloth to protect pressurized carbon dioxide ( CO < sub > 2 </ sub >) canisters used for inflating the vest from injuring the wearer if struck by a round from a firearm.