Word: vesting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...military planners are marveling over the success of a key piece of battlefield equipment, worn for the first time by U.S. troops in combat. The new lightweight Kevlar vest, officially dubbed "interceptor body armor," is being credited for holding down casualties in the just completed battle for Shah-i-Kot. Some soldiers pinned down in fire fights survived AK-47 and other small-arms fire to their chest and back because of the new vest. After the battle, soldiers noted that most of the wounds suffered by U.S. troops were in the arms and legs...
...that’s before she dons a bullet-proof vest and the uniform of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), and straps on her gun belt, filled with a baton, two-way radio, pepper spray, handcuffs and a nine millimeter Glock 22 handgun...
Dershowitz said his costume was his lawyer’s outfit—a bill of rights tie and a shark vest...
General Flowers’ visit came during a regular tour of the Northeast. Other activities yesterday included a meeting with MIT President Charles M. Vest and a talk on engineering and leadership given at the MIT Faculty Club...
...packed crowd know that Rufus was about to appear on stage. I momentarily had the impression that I was about to be welcoming a large woman in Viking horns, but I quickly remembered I was here to see a diva of another sort. Dressed in an embroidered vest stolen from his mother’s closet, a tight black shirt and a pair of faded jeans, Rufus came onto the stage and sat down at the grand piano awaiting him. And then he sang...