Talk:Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops

Use by Korean People's Army?
I recently toured Panmunjeom and saw the KPA guards wearing a PASGT-type helmet instead of the usual peaked hat. Presumably this is a derivative design of Chinese make. Could someone investigate this and update the article to include details of KPA use? 118.42.167.69 (talk) 03:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't count knock-offs to be actual PASGT. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 16:50, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

threat level of vest
What is the threat level of the PASGT Vest?

I believe it is IIIA

Hell no. PASGT vests are more along the lines of IIA if that. Modern stuff like the IBA is IIIA. Kensai Max 21:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

The slang term is "K-Pot," not "K-pod." This refers to the transition from the "Steel pot," the slang term for the steel helmet.

The above reflects my experience during the past 10 years. "K-pod" is a term I have never encountered, but it does sound like a reasonable explanation if someone misunderstands what the speaker is referring to. The article has been changed to reflect the actual term. Gahread 08:39, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I fixed it bye going to ask and geting all kinda info
--Abramsgavin 07:48, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

No, you did not
I have reviewed your latest edits and grew suspicion of some the language use. To no surprise to me, it seems that some text (at least the part I investigated) came from this page. Edits and improvements are always encouraged but plagarism and copyright violations is not tolerated on wikipedia. I have reverted the article to my last version.--Kevin586 17:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Reminiscence to the german M35 WWII helmet
German socalled authors of the german pasgt-article keep on insisting, that the PASGT-helmet is a derivate of the german helmet M35 of WWII. Though I do know, that there are no similarities (beside of the ear-protection), I have no sources on how the inventors got to their shape of the PASGT. Does anyone know? 84.138.42.99 (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The existing ballistic helmet, the Personnel Armor System Ground Troops (PASGT) (U.S. Pat. No. Des. 242,088 issued on Nov. 2, 1976) was a copy of the World War II Nazi helmet, freshpatents.com. 84.139.210.79 (talk) 08:34, 24 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you! 84.138.47.242 (talk) 20:52, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

That is the patents authors personal opinion - it's not necessarily true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.156.24.93 (talk) 10:18, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Resemblance of sthlhelm
Is not saying it resembles Stahlhelm is non-neutral? --Anuclanus (talk) 02:56, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Could you pick a more racially-correct photo?
The current racial population of Hawaii is 75% non-white, and only 25% white (haoles, in Hawaiian). Presumably the racial profile of the Hawaii National Guard will reflect the state's overall racial profile as well. A high percentage of those soldiers with their backs to the camera in the photo are Asians and other non-whites; could you please select a more racially-correct photo for this article? After all, the AJA's (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Battalion in WWII were among the U.S. Army's highest decorated soldiers, weren't they. So why continue to use a photo that is so disturbingly reminiscent of the Nazi-era propaganda photos of grim-faced, narrow-eyed, racist 'Aryan', Wehrmacht soldaten in their stahlhelms? K. Kellogg-Smith (talk) 21:50, 13 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Could you die screaming in a house fire?


 * Those are actual Hawaiian National Guard soldiers. They don't need to to comply with your mincing politically-correct bullshit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.119.72 (talk) 10:54, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Not only is that stupid as hell, I am almost certain that it is the only photo of a Hawaiian national guard member in that helmet. So your proposal isn’t even possible nor logical. CJBruh (talk) 12:40, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Reliability
I deleted the reliability section because it was redundant to information already stated in the article. The article states that the helmet is rated as level IIIA. None of the rounds listed (4.6x30mm, 7.62x25 tokarev, 5.56x45mm NATO and 7.62x39mm) would be stopped by level IIIA armor that the helmet is rated as. It's a bit like saying it's a bad helmet because it can't stop bunker-busting JDAMs, it wasn't designed to stop the mentioned rounds, thus, saying it can't is redundant.98.253.128.68 (talk) 04:33, 1 October 2014 (UTC)Anonymous

Excessive Photos
I believe that some of the pictures can be removed as it is quite a bit excessive. Most of the pictures are useful although a majority are really just taking up space.

Tschau, Dwightol102 (talk) 04:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)