WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said on Thursday it was withdrawing some 16,400 sets of body armor, even though it considers them safe, because a Pentagon watchdog found that the designs had not ...

WASHINGTON - Just six months after the Pentagon agreed to reimburse soldiers who bought their own protective gear, the Army has banned the use of any body armor that is not issued by the military. In ...

When a soldier takes an enemy round to his or her body armor and lives to fight another day, it’s a good-news story for the engineers who develop that protection. But as the Army develops lighter ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Body armor worth $2.5 billion that the Department of Defense's Inspector General found had been improperly tested poses no hazard to troops, according to the Army. The Army cut ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Female soldiers from Fort Campbell deploying to Afghanistan will field the first Army body armor that is shorter and better tailored specifically to fit women’s ...

I was a little surprised to learn that the standard issue G.I body armor isn’t really designed to stop the sort of attacks our soldiers are suffering in modern-day battle. It makes sense, I suppose, ...