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01-21-2023, 07:43 PM
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Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops Helmet
In service
1983 - present (United States military reserve)
1985 - present (other countries)
Used by:
United States Air Force, (historical), United States Army (historical,) United States Army Reserve, United States Marine Corps (historical,) United States Navy
Wars
Invasion of Grenada (first usage)
Invasion of Panama
Persian Gulf War
Battle of Mogadishu
Yugoslav Wars
Global War on Terrorism
War in Afghanistan
Iraq War
Russo-Ukrainian War
Designer:
U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center
Designed:
1977 (helmet)
Manufacturer:
Gibraltar Industries (first known helmet/vest manufacturer) Made by numerous manufacturers, such as Isratex, Inc.
Variants:
U.S. Navy Flak Jacket (Mk 1, Mod 0)
Worn by:
Bazooka, Breaker, (v1, v2) Clutch, Col. Courage, Duke, Dusty, Flash, Footloose, Grandslam, Grunt, Hawk, (v1) Rapid Fire, (v1 and Hall of Fame Series,) Roadblock, (v1) Scarlett*, Short-Fuze, Steeler, Zap
Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT, pronounced /ˈp?zɡət/ PAZ-gət) is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the early 1980s until the mid-2000s, when the helmet and vest were succeeded by the Lightweight Helmet (LWH), Modular Integrated Communications Helmet (MICH), and Interceptor Body Armor (IBA) respectively.
Designed in the mid-1970s as a replacement for the M1 helmet and previous fragmentation vests, prototypes of the PASGT were tested in the late 1970s before being fielded in the early 1980s. In the early 2000s, the PASGT vest began being replaced by the IBA and the PASGT helmet was replaced soon thereafter with the LWH and MICH. As of 2018, the only remaining U.S. military users of PASGT in any capacity are the U.S. Army Reserve and the U.S. Navy, the latter of which retains the PASGT helmet for use by sailors aboard its warships, in addition to a PASGT-derived vest known as the "U.S. Navy Flak Jacket".
PASGT is an acronym, standing for Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops. When used by itself, PASGT refers to both the vest and helmet together.
In the U.S. military, the PASGT helmet was most commonly known by its wearers as simply the "Kevlar". The nickname has since been adopted for usage with other helmets. The PASGT helmet was also referred to by its wearers in the U.S. military as the "K-pot", similar in name to the colloquial nickname "steel pot" for the steel M1 helmet, which was in widespread U.S. military usage from the 1940s, to the 1970s, including the Vietnam War. The PASGT helmet was also, but less commonly, known by its wearers as the "Fritz" helmet for its resemblance to the Stahlhelm, which was the standard helmet used by the German military forces in the First and Second World Wars.
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An early prototype variant of the PASGT helmet and vest in the ERDL pattern.
The PASGT helmet is a combat helmet first employed by the U.S. military in 1983 and eventually adopted by many other military and law enforcement agencies internationally. The shell is made from 19 layers of Kevlar, a ballistic aramid fabric treated with a phenolic resin system, and is rated at Threat Level IIIA. The helmet and offers protection against shrapnel and ballistic threats. It meets the 1800 requirement of MIL-STD-662 E. It weighs from 3.1 lb (1,410 g) (size extra small) to 4.2 lb (1,910 g) (extra large).
U.S. Navy sailors in January 2017 wearing the PASGT helmet.
Overview
The PASGT helmet is typically painted olive drab, though other colors such as tan, grey, and black could also be used. Camouflage was available in the form of cloth helmet covers with varying camouflage patterns, such as woodland, six-color desert, and three-color desert. Some PASGT helmets were retrofitted with newer camouflage colors, such as the Universal Camouflage Pattern and MultiCam.
Outside military use, the PASGT helmet has been used by SWAT teams, where it is often painted black. It has also been used by United Nations Peacekeeping forces, where it is often painted United Nations blue.
When worn with a helmet cover, the PASGT helmet is often fitted with a band around it that has two light recharging glow patches (sometimes known as "cat eyes") on the rear, intended to reduce friendly fire incidents. These bands are also used to hold vegetation or small personal items, as with the M1 helmet before it. These bands can have names and blood types printed on them to identify the wearer and their blood type in the event of a casualty. In the U.S. Army, PASGT helmets often featured a patch with the wearer's rank insignia on it stitched onto the front, and/or a second patch showing the symbol of the wearer's unit on the sides. The U.S. Marines wore the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor insignia on the front of the helmet as an iron-on transfer, similar to the one worn by Marines on the breast pocket of the BDU. This practice continued with the adoption of the LWH, but fell out of use and was discontinued because the mounting base for night vision devices covered the emblem, and required a hole in the fabric to attach, defacing the symbol.
Development
The PASGT helmet was developed by the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center[10] after the Vietnam War during the mid-to-late 1970s. It completely replaced the steel M1 helmet in U.S. military service by the end of the 1980s. It first saw use in combat in 1983 during Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada, became standard issue for the U.S. military in 1985, and completely replaced the M1 helmet for frontline troops by the end of the decade. Army units stationed in Alaska were the last to receive the helmets, some not getting the PASGT until 1988.
Accessories
Various add-on accessories were developed for the PASGT helmet, including a helmet mount assembly to attach night vision goggles and a riot protection helmet visor mount.
Replacement
The PASGT helmet was replaced in U.S. military service by the Lightweight Helmet for the U.S. Marine Corps and the Modular Integrated Communications Helmet by the U.S. Army, which was in turn replaced by the Advanced Combat Helmet.
Both were eventually replaced by the Enhanced Combat Helmet (ECH) around 2012 and 2014.
The PASGT system is still used by some U.S. allies and still sees some continued limited use in the U.S. military as of 2017, where it serves as one of various vests for sailors assigned to duty aboard U.S. Navy vessels. -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers..._Ground_Troops
*Scarlett wore a mustard colored PASGT helmet in the early issues of the Marvel run.
Schwarzkopf's helmet, a PASGT, represents "how technology and innovation work together in the field of ground-forces protection,? says Frank Blazich, Jr., the Smithsonian's curator of modern military forces.
Known as PASGT (for Personal Armor System Ground Troops), the helmet was introduced to the U.S. ground forces in the years following the Vietnam conflict and was initially employed in limited numbers during actions in Grenada and Haiti in the 1980s. It was in wide use by American ground forces by the time Operation Desert Storm was initiated in 1991, when U.S. forces led a coalition of 34 nations to liberate Kuwait after its occupation by Iraq in August of 1990.
In 1965, DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar. That was a game-changer, says Blazich. In the 1970s, several Army agencies?led by the Army Natick Development Center at the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts?began work using layers of tough, puncture-resistant Kevlar 29, a synthetic ballistic fiber bonded with a synthetic polymer resin, to create a helmet capable of stopping most bullets, as well as shrapnel and shell fragments in a skull protecting device that weighed between 3.1 (for the small model) and 4.2 pounds (for the extra-large size).
Because of the malleability and plasticity of Kevlar in the design process, the Army and its agencies were able to make a far more efficient helmet design, creating the PASGT, similar to the one General Schwarzkopf donated to the Smithsonian in 2007. Its design also allowed for coverage of the ears and the back of the skull all the way to the nape of the neck.
Though some of the American troops referred to it as the K Pot, referring to its outer Kevlar material, others called it the Fritz for its resemblance to the scallop-edged Stalhelm helmet worn by German soldiers in both World Wars. But despite the disparaging nickname, the PASGT's protective qualities, due to the Kevlar exterior, proved a vast protective improvement over the M1. While still not perfect at stopping close-range bullets and shrapnel and shell fragments, the helmet?s provision of safety was recognized as a quantum protective leap forward.
First used combat in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983, by the time Operation Desert Storm came around in 1991, it was welcomed as standard equipment until the PASGT, too, was replaced by a new model in 2003.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smith...eld-180963319/
The Personnal Armor System Ground Troops, or PASGT, used from 1979-2003, replaced steel construction.
The PASGT replaced the M1 steel constructed helmet.
The PASGT is constructed of 17 layers of Kevlar-brand aramid fiber treated with phenolic resin.
I remember we were still using the old 2 piece steel pots at Fort Polk in the 5th Infantry Division and after getting transferred to West Germany they were issuing us the kevlars. Some people even referred to them as fritz helmets because of their similarities with the old WW2 German helmets. The kevlars were received with some reservations as you couldn?t use them for a wash pot or to boil water for heating up rations in the field. Looking back at what we had then and to what they have now blows me away. Especially in the areas of boots and flashlights.
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