Warfighter Support: Information on Army and Marine Corps Ground Combat helmet pads

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Warfighter Support: Information on Army and Marine Corps Ground Combat
Helmet Pads


Combat soldiers operate in diverse environments and face injury threats that place demands on the protective equipment systems they use to provide consistent protection throughout a range of temperatures and threat magnitudes. Protective helmets are one of those systems. In addition to protecting against ballistic threats, Army and Marine Corps ground combat helmets are now designed to absorb energy in order to reduce head injury risk from blunt impacts; previous combat helmets, such as the Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops helmet in use until 2002, were not designed to provide any tested levels of blunt impact protection.1 The currently used Army Advanced Combat Helmet and Marine Corps Light Weight Helmet are outfitted with a pad suspension system to protect against these threats.
These pad suspension systems have been found to offer superior blunt impact protection over the older sling suspension systems.