CAMP HOVEY, South Korea (Oct. 31, 2014) -- A Soldier's Advanced Combat Helmet proved itself a lifesaver two years ago when enemy fighters unleashed a hail of automatic weapons fire on his unit. The ...
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division received the Army’s newest helmet today, the first combat helmet capable of withstanding small arms fire without added protection. The Next Generation ...
WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- The Army awarded a contract Tuesday for a helmet that weighs an average of 22 percent less than the one currently in use but provides just as much protection, ...
A Black soldier in action in the Pacific during World War II as seen in the exhibit “The Blue Helmets in Action,” which is on display at Houston’s Buffalo Soldiers National Museum through June 30.
The Army has officially started fielding its newest combat helmet, the Next-Generation Integrated Head Protection System, to soldiers in close-combat formations, the service announced Tuesday.
A number of advances to shooter-location systems that U.S. ground forces use to track the source of enemy fire could produce even more sophisticated tools, including one that has the ability to ...
Family and friends in Raanana dedicated a Torah scroll topped with a silver crown containing Dan Wajdenbaum’s combat helmet, ...
MANITOWOC, Wisconsin (WGBA) — The helmet worn by a Wisconsin man when he was killed during the Vietnam War is now back home. When Jeffrey Rupp died in 1969, his helmet never made its way back home.