Quote Originally Posted by Miah
the modern flack jackets do have a little part that comes down to protect you berries. most troops don't wear them that much unless they are going to be doing building clearings and such. While it is a great idea to protect the troops legs and such it is not the main goal of armor. The main goal it to trotect the vital organs, and thats about it.

Before anyone thinks legs are not vital organs, let me remind you of General Albert Sidney Johnston. He was wounded in the thigh at Shiloh, no one around him knew how to apply a tourniquet. Before they could get a doctor to him, a matter of less than 20, he bled to death.