Originally Posted by
ST911
Gold standard would be to give you the same protection that everyone else has, sized to fit, within warranty period, highest mobility and lowest weight that meets mission threats with an extra margin. Check out the other threads on armor for that, medic armor isn't special.
Tangent- "TEMS" means a lot of things. Team members or mutual aid units, inside folks, outside folks, warm zone folks, team health/sick call folks, etc. Also purpose-trained personnel vs local FF/EMTs with armor doing RTF work protected by others. Heck, there are even sports medicine and PT folks supporting teams using the label. "Medic" doesn't necessarily mean paramedic in this context anymore either. All that's okay, but know how the words used are applied.