The History of: The US Military PASGT Kevlar Vest | Uniform History 

Desert Storm 101st ABN, I took a 7.62 round (glancing, thanks to heaven). The round entered my vest inside my top right breast pocket and completely shredded my SOI code book and notepad. Never knew I had been struck until my RTO noticed the pile of shredded paper all around me in our fighting position. The Kevlar saved my life.

In '91 we (1st ID) didn't get the desert camo covers because they were all issued to people in the rear where camera crews were at.

I'm so nostalgic about BDUs and '80s gear. Woodland was the best!!

Got one of those vests. To me, beeing born early 80s, nothing will ever look so "military" than this wonderful designed armor 😎

I remember my Dad's PASGT gear in the 90s in good old woodland and I've gotta say it's always what I think of when I think "Army" even still today... and polishing those black boots!

6:17 when you finally find the dude who has been camping the whole match

i was issued a PASGT vest back in 2012 when i was going through basic training in the Canadian army. they only had size large and XL (maybe some XXLs). as one of the taller guys in my platoon i got an XL sized vest, it was large enough that i could layer both halves of the the vest front over each other.

I wore this in combat for the Panama Invasion of 1989-90. It was very hot wearing it when moving and shooting during the invasion because Panama is a tropical country. It was also difficult wearing the ALICE LBE and carrying the large ALICE pack. I solved this by making a chest sternum strap with 550 cord or parachute cord. The LBE would flop around when you are running or get into the prone position to fire. I did the same with the large ALICE pack shoulder straps by putting 550 cord so the shoulder straps won't come loose and fall off the sides. I wanted to center the shoulder straps to the center of my chest. We never left our rucksacks behind. We wore them during combat unless it was necessary to drop it in combat. We never did because all of our extra ammo, water, food, batteries, and night vision goggles were inside our packs. I was an M60 machinegunner so I carried mostly ammo for those sustained fire fights in the city. It was funny to see the SAW gunners suffer like I did. They carried more ammo than I did because of the lighter weight 5.56mm versus the 7.62mm I carried. I carried 1,200 rounds of 7.62mm. My assistant gunner carried the spare barrel with bag and tripod. His load of 7 magazines of 210 rounds of 5.56mm for his M16A2 and 1,000 rounds of spare 7.62mm. During the first days of that week. I fired close to 800 rounds to support my platoon taking down buildings where the Panama Defense Forces and their thugs firing out of windows. After the engagement my gun team were resupplied with ammo, water, and food as my unit moved from block to block in Panama City. That PSGAT body armor still on. I was pouring through with sweat. I went through water just as fast as I went through ammo. I will never forget that time ever.

At Parris Island in 1988, I was issued one of the OD Vietnam vests, that had hard vertical rib like plates in it. I only wore it while we were at the rifle range. I distinctly remember getting prickly heat because of it.

I remember having to wear the PASGT vest in Basic Training back in 2004 at Ft. Sill. That thing is the exact opposite of breathable when compared to the IBA with plates. For reasons I cannot explain the PASGT would suck in humidity like it was it's job.

On Parris Island in '91 we were issued the OLD vests, the ones with nylon shells and armor plates in pockets. I don't know what their nomenclature is. The vests were so old they were falling apart. Every time I was around bushes I would rip out one or two of those plates (they looked like they were made of plastic or maybe kevlar) and pitch it into the forest. I always made sure the Drill Instructors weren't looking! The PASGT, in my opinion, was way better than the older model vests. Of course, everything is relevant. I'm sure the newest vests are better than the PASGT.

In canada we are still issued the PASGT vest but only for training. I wore one of bmqL

the pasgt vests were used until 2003 for war, but are still used for training for the Us army

6:16 That's one happy gunner. Doesn't supprise me. Everyone would make a face like thet when behind the good ol' fifty.

This channel is honestly one of my favorites, i know youre going to get famous bro

God damn this is a cool channel, you have done some great work, I'll gladly share your stuff with everyone I can.

You deserve so many more subs and views im in the army and this makes me look at uniforms with a different eye now

Would really love to see a video about the IDF's use of a non-camo uniform and the mitznefet(head/helmet covering)! Thanks!

Nice another review of the _PASGT System: Vest_ video, i hope you'll do the *Interceptor Vest* next after this and i'm sure it's added one of your future list's. 😃

Thank you for your service and for sharing

I was at a army surplus store and got to try a vest on and once you put it on and walk around for a bit its not that bad .

I went to USMC Boot in 2011. We these were our armor for the humps. After Boot, never even saw them again, but those were some heavy SOBs.

Very informative, nicely done video, thank you very much,.

Was issued the PASGT vest during the onset of OIF, didn't get the newer one until a year later when we were extended another 4 months in country.

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I remember seeing a lot of this gear growing up and going to National Guard duty with my dad. I loved the M81 camo they used and seeing the troops with the PASGT gear as a kid. When I joined up, we had the IBA and shortly after the IOTV and while more effective, it just didn't seem as cool lol. Also the digital camo was bullshit.

I wore the PASGT vest in South Korea in 2005, and then gave it to my uncle when I was issued an IBA before deploying to Iraq in 06

Great video

Great video! I just bought a clean surplus PASGT flak vest to go with my chocolate chip desert camo cover:)-John in Texas

lol... I was still wearing one of these in the Corps up until sometime in spring 05.

I wore the PASGT in Bosnia in 1996 and in training from 97-2002.

I think that was our best dressed soldiers were in the 90,s the PASGT was awesome looking and the M81 woodland is still one of the most effective camouflage patterns .

I was looking around for translations when I came upon this video. It was good, but I didn't learn polish. For context, I bought a polish OLV Flak Vest with Wz. 93 pattern camouflage, and I figured I'd read up on the informational instructions that came with it. I think you all can guess what came after that.

What is being deployed at 4:40-4:50? It kind of looks like a delta operator deploying some riot suppression foam?

As an Army veteran I ask...WHY is the military ALWAYS one step behind with matching up the camo pattern of the vest with the current uniform?..wars in .Iraq and Afghanistan start with troops wearing woodland camo vests with DCU top and bottoms.....then it's DCU camo vests with ACU top and bottom...then it's ACU vests with Multi Cam top and bottoms....what is so damn hard about having the troops wearing the same color vest as their uniform?...it's not rocket science you know.

Could you do a modern load-out video of current issue for Infantry and then perhaps Special Forces like Green Berets

6:18 lol this guy looks pretty excited

I bought mine yesterday I love it

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I was issued a PASGT vest for 4 years. I wore one exactly 1 time. The hand grenade range in basic training....

I have one with the manual mint condition

do a series on russian body armor

Does anyone know where to find the combat footage from 0:19 of the Germans crossing the river?

Pretty good video. If you need help with doing one on the LBV88 tactical load bearing vest, I've got a couple article on them in my blog stuff. :)

So the US went from a kevlar only vest straight to a ceramic plate carrier in late 80's. While the USSR had a titanium plate carrier in between (in Afghanistan, for example). Interesting.

Do you know if they used the CM or ICM vests for the tactical guys during the Matrix lobby shootout, or if it was a different vest?

Was there ever a winter cover made for the vest?

Thought rangers in mogadishu used Ranger Body Armor not PASGT, but of course there was other units there likely in PASGT

My friend said he remembers throwing frozen batteries at Somalian from the humvee to get people away from it.

6:17 When you haven't had anything to eat but you have to do your job so you try to eat your own lip while doing your job.

In the 80s even the military had wide shoulder pads

i have a pasgt vest with both desert camo covers

We got 6 color PAGST vest covers in 2003 for our IBA. You read that right. Army gonna Army, and they sent the wrong camo for the wrong vest.

Do you have the history of Brazilian uniforms?

Ugh. Plate carrier vests, always dug into the lower waist line when ever i had to bend over, or squat down. Thing weighed a ton with the plates in.

Can you do the RBA vest?

Weren't they wearing different vests during the battle of mogadishu? (one with steel plates)

What's the music in the video

We had OTV in 1999.

PLEASE do Russian camo next! Surpat would be a good one to do next! My profile pic is the surpat pattern.

i own an m1967 vest in my collection.

I own one of thes vests

i have a manual

Brazil wears this helmet

i could see a use for this type of armor today, but not as a vest, rather as a kama type skirting around the upper legs, though i dont think the us armed forces would go for the look of armored skirts even if it did save some lives and limbs.

I always hated the PASGT system, when wearing the vest and the helemt I would always develop a knot right between the middle of shoulder blades. By later years I would wear a boonie when parked out in the field on an ASLT instead of my K-pot, there was nothing I could do about the vest though.

It's funny that the USMC got it right back in the 60s but the Army pushed PASGT on everyone until finally the DoD was like, it's time to upgrade, what should we do? Oh, lets adopt this whole thing that is basically what the USMC wanted to do 40 years ago.

Do sapi... I'm OIF2 VET!!

OTV vest !!! Please !! 😁

Back your vest with high impact plastic from a Black 55 gallon clench top drum. Expanse in vest gets stuck in plastic.

I used that PASGT shit at boot camp in 2003. When it was older than I was. Ridiculous. Now the Interceptor vest that I went to war in is like two generations old. The PASGT helmets sucked too. They were heavy and the chinstrap sucked. The LWH that the Corps replaced it with was way better. Now they're using something else again though.

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4:41 Tactical silly string gun??

Two things are certain; regardless guys are going to bitch and the load out isn't getting lighter. Thanks to the ridiculous MOLLE there's more pouches to add therefore more crap to carry. No such thing as "light infantry"

Does anyone know what's going on at 4:42 with what looks like a massive silly string gun??? Lol

Interesting how the modern body armor used today is a rather recent 'invention'.

Swedish M90 Camo

My dad invented this and the helmet

Is it me or does this guy sound like VanossGaming

В 80-х такой жилет стоил 50 баксов...сейчас китайские поделки.

Only good for tucking your chin in the collar to go to sleep sitting up when you should be walking your post in a military manner.

Wore one of these babies and duce gear in boot camp!

I wanted to buy a used UN version of the flak jacket as a souvenir from eBay. But in Australia needed a class E weapon licence to have 1, so sadly I did not buy it. Thanks anti gun lobby.

Better than wearing nothing like a lot of poor countries where there’s not even enough money to make flak vest

the extra terrestrials gave us kevlar, every other story is a coverup

Please exclusively use metric units -- ffs!