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Personal flotation devices being worn on a navy transport . A personal flotation device (PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is a flotation device in the form of a vest or suit that is worn by a user to prevent the wearer from drowning in a body of water.
Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT, pronounced / ˈ p æ z ɡ ə t / PAZ-gət) is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the early 1980s until the early or 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.
The International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code [2] gives specific technical requirements for the manufacture, maintenance and record keeping of life-saving appliances. The number and type of life-saving appliances differ from vessel to vessel, and the code gives a minimum requirement to comply in order to make a ship seaworthy.
Philippines: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: PVAR: Unknown: A variant of the Armalite AR-15 and M16 rifle, using a Pneumatic Valve and Rod system. Used by the Special Operations Command. Night Fighting Weapons System Philippines: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm: NFWS: unknown: Introduced in 2004, developed by the PMC based on M16A1 rifle after ...
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A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an "intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance" mission crashed in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao del Sur, killing all four on board, U.S. Indo-Pacific ...
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