Proper Wear of Armor (with anatomical diagrams)

**Turnkey11** · 12-22-11, 11:22

Originally Posted by variablebinary

Without getting too far into the weeds, someone summarized plate size and placement very simply.

Wear the largest plate you can until your ability to function is impaired. The more likely you are to get shot at or take frag, or even a shotgun blast, the more coverage you'll tend to want.

I could sport a medium plate, but wear the large instead to cover more of my spine and organs (vital and otherwise). The ultimate goal being, if there is projectile flying in my direction, the odds of it hitting plate is greater if my plate is a little larger.

Ive always ran whatever the largest I could get in the rear, with a medium up front. Anything larger up front impedes forward arm movement, shooting a pistol I couldnt get my elbows locked. As for the larger rear plate, I started doing it in 03-04' because it helped my back on those 2 day trips back and forth to Kuwait in a 5 ton seat. Never had an issue with the rear plate impeding movement.

**JSantoro** · 01-12-12, 10:58

Hey, did anybody nab those photos from the OP and save them?

They've expired, and I'd like to see if we can solve that.

**NoveskeFan** · 01-12-12, 11:05

Originally Posted by JSantoro

Hey, did anybody nab those photos from the OP and save them?

They've expired, and I'd like to see if we can solve that.

Other pics besides the two anatomical pics?

**panzerr** · 01-12-12, 11:10

Not sure what pictures you are talking about, but here is a link to the PDF I put together:

http://sixty-six.org/x_drive/proper_wear_of_armor.pdf

**JSantoro** · 01-12-12, 11:13

Oh, crap on a cracker....no. I'm an idiot.

I need to remember that certain networks I use don't let me see certain photos! If the little red Xs I'm looking at are like hearing hoofbeats,then I went right to thinking "Zebras!" instead of "Horsies!"

Derp derp!

**halo2304** · 04-02-12, 13:51

Tag for reading later!

When I'd don my Eagle PC, it felt a bit awkward because it came about to the middle of my kidneys in the back and thought it was wrong. Seeing the diagram, it appears the PC was where it was suppose to be.

**redone13** · 08-02-12, 17:10

Very informative, thanks.

**patriot_man** · 04-26-13, 07:54

Pics and PDF are gone.

**panzerr** · 04-26-13, 08:14

Which pics are you referring to? There are two in the first post. The link for the pdf in the first post was correct, but I had to fix the one just above.