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Originally Posted by GSK88
Sorry but this has been bugging me for a while. By plate carrier I'm assuming you mean something like a CIRAS right? And a PACA underneath? This has been bothering me for so long. If I can find it, I was sure I saw a guy with a Maritime CIRAS without pouches and he had a harness type rig OVER that. Confused the hell out of me.
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Not quite sure why you would do that - the CIRAS takes both the soft armour and the hard plates inside the rig. No need to wear a PACA underneith a CIRAS; unless it's a smaller type of Plate Carrier that holds ONLY the hard plates (i.e. - Eagle PC with Cumberbund, etc.)
If the guy was wearing a rig over his CIRAS - the only thing I can guess is perhaps there were no PACA's - just soft plate inserts at the time(?) - there might have been a mission requirements to drop all the pouches but not the protection.