I swear these guys (and a lot of police/military too) just take these jobs so they can wear a bulletproof jacket and do that pose in the article pic to “look cool” and make their arms look bigger
Also, yes, but it is ridiculous how they seemingly can’t stand up for 5 seconds without striking that pose. Or cowboy-style hands on the belt holster, etc.
Tbf, whenever I’ve had to wear the vest for any length of time I stood that way too. That shit would put pressure on my neck which would be uncomfortable even if I wasn’t autistic (assumption).
Nah, when you wear them they tend to hurt your neck or your back after a while. I used do that to remove the extra weight, like how you do with a backpack. The longer the string the lower the backpack the heavier it feels.
I figured that could be the reason, like with the various ways soldiers find to carry their rifles more comfortably, but I just don’t understand the physics of it here. Pulling on a backpack straps, I get, you are basically offloading the weight from your back and into your arms (and, as you said, bringing it higher to make it a little more comfortable to wear), but here it looks like it would just strain your neck and possibly your back even more since there are plates on both sides (which I assume is the heaviest, most “problematic” parts of the vest regarding comfort).
Guess I need to wear some body armor to understand it, physics and biomechanics do be weird sometimes.
I can’t explaining it honestly, just like I use to put my arms in thru the arm holes so the armor carried my arms. Just depends on what is uncomfortable and want to rest. Lol.
Eh, hooking your arms like that is something I did with football shoulder pads as a youth too before ever wearing a vest, somewhere to rest your hands and you can move it around a bit for ventilation. (During snow games our hands would be straight down the pants to keep warm, not sure if that’s better or worse for these dipshits)
You’re absolutely right that a lot of these assholes join just for that though, pretty much every photo of cops LARPing as soldiers shows at least one carrying no plates in a vest. They don’t use them for protection and remove one or two to cool off after rucking in full battle rattle for hours….all they care about is the intimidation factor of looking like a shooter so the real weight is never carried.
I swear these guys (and a lot of police/military too) just take these jobs so they can wear a bulletproof jacket and do that pose in the article pic to “look cool” and make their arms look bigger
And a little something about bullying and harassing people without consequences.
If you do your dream job then you never have to work asingle day in your life.
Also, yes, but it is ridiculous how they seemingly can’t stand up for 5 seconds without striking that pose. Or cowboy-style hands on the belt holster, etc.
Tbf, whenever I’ve had to wear the vest for any length of time I stood that way too. That shit would put pressure on my neck which would be uncomfortable even if I wasn’t autistic (assumption).
Nah, when you wear them they tend to hurt your neck or your back after a while. I used do that to remove the extra weight, like how you do with a backpack. The longer the string the lower the backpack the heavier it feels.
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I figured that could be the reason, like with the various ways soldiers find to carry their rifles more comfortably, but I just don’t understand the physics of it here. Pulling on a backpack straps, I get, you are basically offloading the weight from your back and into your arms (and, as you said, bringing it higher to make it a little more comfortable to wear), but here it looks like it would just strain your neck and possibly your back even more since there are plates on both sides (which I assume is the heaviest, most “problematic” parts of the vest regarding comfort).
Guess I need to wear some body armor to understand it, physics and biomechanics do be weird sometimes.
I can’t explaining it honestly, just like I use to put my arms in thru the arm holes so the armor carried my arms. Just depends on what is uncomfortable and want to rest. Lol.
Eh, hooking your arms like that is something I did with football shoulder pads as a youth too before ever wearing a vest, somewhere to rest your hands and you can move it around a bit for ventilation. (During snow games our hands would be straight down the pants to keep warm, not sure if that’s better or worse for these dipshits)
You’re absolutely right that a lot of these assholes join just for that though, pretty much every photo of cops LARPing as soldiers shows at least one carrying no plates in a vest. They don’t use them for protection and remove one or two to cool off after rucking in full battle rattle for hours….all they care about is the intimidation factor of looking like a shooter so the real weight is never carried.