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** The effectiveness of body armor is highly underestimated. As [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7321647.stm this] article demonstrates, modern body armor can receive a full-contact grenade blast.
** Many army medics in Iraq reported that soldiers who survived an IED blast would often have shrapnel injuries on the limbs that would stop in a very neat line where their body armor started.
** The latest trend in body armor? Ballistic shorts which provide coverage to the groin area. This being intended to address a [[Groin Attack|major problem]] for troops riding in vehicles that roll over landmines or IEDs. Various styles are being evaluated, including "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130508144915/http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/ballistic-boxers-might-just-save-your-tail-1.122993 ballistic boxers]" to shorts made from more conventional body armor materials. [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s abound, obviously.
* A primitive version of such a vest is reputed to have been used by tax-gatherers. It consisted of a plank of wood hanging under the clothes on their back, and apparently it was not unknown for them to go about their business with arrows sticking out of it.
* [[w:Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]], outlaw and Australian [[Folk Hero]], is famous for his standoff with the police with him and his gang dressed in body armor forged from plow parts. Unfortunately for the gang, they didn't armor their legs and only Ned survived to sit trial.
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