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Second Chance is an American body armor manufacturing company. The company was founded in the early 1970s by U.S. Marine and pizza delivery owner/driver Richard Davis. Davis developed the idea of a bulletproof vest after shooting three armed robbers in self-defense during a delivery.
The same year, the organization released the Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient video and sound recognition software with algorithms that identify the gender and screentime of characters in media. [10] While examining films released in 2014 and 2015, the software found male characters were present on screen approximately twice as often as female ...
The Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) in MultiCam, as issued to United States Army soldiers. A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, is a type of body armour designed to absorb impact and prevent the penetration of firearm projectiles and explosion fragments to the torso.
Davis, who founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004, noted that most often a younger woman is cast alongside an older — often much more than seven years older — leading man ...
Meghan Markle, Geena Davis. Getty Images(2) Meghan Markle and Geena Davis are bringing awareness to how mothers are portrayed on television. The Suits alum and mother of two teamed up with the ...
After initially using IBA as their main body armor system, the U.S. Marine Corps developed a completely new armor system, the Modular Tactical Vest, which was their primary body armor system in Iraq. On September 25, 2006, the Marine Corps announced that Protective Products International won a contract for 60,000 new Modular Tactical Vests (MTV ...
Three decades after driving off that fateful cliff and into one of cinema's most iconic freeze frames, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon are getting back behind the wheel together. To mark the 30th ...
The Improved Outer Tactical Vest as a whole is an improvement over previous US body armor systems, with the fragmentation vest from the Vietnam War being limited to fragmentation protection, the PASGT vest being limited to pistol rounds, and the previous Outer Tactical Vest being unable to stop armor piercing rounds.