The U.S. Army recently acknowledged that men and women are not built the same. With women increasingly doing the same military jobs as men, the army decided it was time to redesign its female soldiers ...
Andrea Porter, a researcher at Texas A&M's School of Public Health, has developed a vest specifically designed for female officers, emphasizing comfort and safety ...
Senior Airman Kiah Cook, 377th Security Forces Group defender, wears the new female body armor on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Feb. 4. (Airman 1st Class Ireland Summers/Air Force) New body ...
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at providing next-generation body armor specifically ...
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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A bill to equip female members of the Department of Homeland Security with body armor better tailored to the female body proposed by U.S. Senator Gary Peters has successfully ...
Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! When Major Kathleen Yancosek was stationed in Afghanistan, she found herself doing ...
WASHINGTON – The Senate is prodding the Pentagon to buy body armor designed for women troops and to track injuries caused by ill-fitting gear. The approach has been piecemeal and progress not ...
It’s been an important year for equal rights in the United States military. Women soldiers are on the verge of being given the official clearance to fight on the front lines, something they have been ...
Staff Sgt. Conner Sona of the 90th Logistics Readiness Squadron shows Staff Sgt. Amber Alderman, from the 90th Missile Security Operations Squadron, the features of the new body armor that is designed ...
Darlene Iskra’s post here Tuesday about a possible divers’ memorial had a link to a page celebrating female military divers. If you followed it, you might have read an excerpt from an interview with ...