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** In 2006, the US Army banned the use of privately purchased armor (making any deaths while wearing non-approved armor not eligible for certain death benefits), specifically the Dragon Skin, although some elite troops are known to hold on to their Dragon Skin after the ban, prefering it over the standard-issue Interceptor Body Armor.
*** The decision was likely also driven by a nasty collapse of accountability for body armor during the War in Iraq. The upsurge in privately-purchased body armor was driven by a breakdown in the supply of armor in the run-up to the war (the Army switched body armor types ''right'' before the war).
* The term bulletproof comes from the process of bulletproving( that is, I.E [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|proving something resists bullets]] [[Simple Yet Awesome|by shooting at it.]] Specifically seventeenth and eighteenth century arsenals after producing breastplates(still issued to some heavy cavalry units) would fire muskets at them. That is why some of the models in museums have dents; the dent is proof that they have been properly tested(for the rigors of their own time)at the factory.
 
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