Is the Army’s New Tactical Bra Ready for Deployment?
June 22, 2023 at 06:02AMA delightfully fun—yet informative—reported essay on female military garments. Patricia Marx’s breezy tone whips you through this piece and provides a few chuckles along the way.
Today, the Soldier Center’s labs are more Willy Wonka-ish than ever. There are two climate chambers—one designated Tropics, the other Arctic—which can re-create just about any environment on earth in order to test products and the responses of human beings. Want to have your vitals monitored while you cycle on a stationary bike with forty-m.p.h. winds gusting your way, at temperatures of up to a hundred and sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit? You can do it here. Copper mannequins equipped with more than a hundred sensors are used to test hopefully protective garments, to see how soldiers would weather flash-fire scenarios similar to those resulting from an I.E.D.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2023/06/21/is-the-armys-new-tactical-bra-ready-for-deployment/
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