{"id":28541,"date":"2012-07-11T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/warrior-princesses-in-todays-army.html"},"modified":"2012-07-11T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T04:30:36","slug":"warrior-princesses-in-todays-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/warrior-princesses-in-todays-army.html","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Princesses in Today&#39;s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army is figuring out that men and women need different body armor. Really. And chain-mail bikinis aren&#39;t going to cut it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic03.mediaite.com%2Fthemarysue%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2Fxenaarmor1.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/xena-inspired-military-armor\/'>U.S. Military Develops Xena-Inspired Armor For Women<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHere at The Mary Sue, we\u2019re no stranger to the problem of armoring women for battle \u2014 in pop culture, we\u2019re half-naked and totally unsuited for combat, and in real life, our armor doesn\u2019t even fit and we\u2019re totally unsuited for combat. What\u2019s a lady soldier to do? Take a cue from Xena: Warrior Princess, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the U.S. military began to address complaints from women that their armor was uncomfortable and more of a hindrance than an asset: \u201cIt rubbed on the hips, and the vests w&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XnwrmQtnrkL' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army is figuring out that men and women need different body armor. Really. And chain-mail bikinis aren&#39;t going to cut it &#8230; Embedded Link U.S. Military Develops Xena-Inspired Armor For Women Here at The Mary Sue, we\u2019re no stranger to the problem of armoring women for battle \u2014 in pop culture, we\u2019re half-naked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/warrior-princesses-in-todays-army.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Warrior Princesses in Today&#39;s Army&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4040,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/24\/lessons_from_th.html","url_meta":{"origin":28541,"position":0},"title":"Lessons from the past","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Feb-03 8:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some words to think about. 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