Chaffing May Be The Answer?
Yeah, I’m having an evening. If you don’t see a relationship to the pissing on dead guys you need not comment?
Marines’ Ballistic Underwear Must Also Be Comfy
Kevlar underwear can protect U.S. Marines against blast fragments flying like bullets through the air, but it lacks the comfort of simple cotton undies or silky unmentionables. Now the U.S. military has begun searching for better alternatives that prevent chafing as well as battle wounds.
The U.S. Marine Corps sees comfortable undergarments as being equally important to ballistic protection, according to a new request for information aimed at U.S. manufacturers. That means any new underwear fabric must not only shield private parts against burns and tiny fragments traveling at 650 feet per second — the speed of some bullets — but also feel soft against the skin and have the breathability to dry out quickly.
Please keep in mind that I’ve never worn Kevlar anything, but DO understand how irritating chafing can be.
This is a definitively a YMMV kind of post.
Category: Geezer Alert!
Thankfully, I popped smoke before the notion of a Kevlar diaper came around.
Hell, we didn’t wear underwear in theater, period.
It’s a valid concern, I think. Even in garrison with ruck marches and running in the humidity of coastal Georgia, chafing sucks pretty hard. A pimple in the groin region can get ugly and infected pretty quick.
That being said, compression shorts are a Godsend and if anything hits me in the junk at 650 fps, there’s a pretty good chance I’m going down anyway.
Speechless. Simply speechless.
(However, I cannot articulate them, but would someone PLEASE turn OFF the assorted conflicting thoughts?)
Uh Zero, nothing awry with the topic, unless your interest lies more with what goes in the underwear.
In my Army days in the locker room one could tell which service someone was in before they put on their uniform. The Navy guys all wore boxers, the Air Force guys wore designer briefs and has blow dryers, the Marines had garters attaching their socks to their shirt tails and the Army guys wore none. WTF does this have to do with anything? Nothing, I’m just saying that’s my underwear story contribution.
“Is that a Kevlar codpiece you’re wearing, or are you just happy to see me?”
Sorry, just wanted to tie this thread in to the DADT repeal…
That dick flap on the IBA wouldn’t do shit, and if you were running around just right it would constantly nut tap you. I can’t imagine Tighty Whities made of the same material. I think it would probably be like rubbing you r unmentionables on sand paper. Bad enough when you get woken up at oh Dark thirty and rin to a bunker But ass Naked. . . having to put tighty greenies on too? Might be too much.
Is there going to be a Zappi Plate for you junk, too?
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