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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 1561436, member: 22&quot;]These helmets offered virtually no protection whatsover.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I was fighting which was often it was the first thing to come off, the same when running.</p><p>If you had the chin strap down, they could be pulled backwards nearly garotting you.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1984 I wore a Nato helmet for 16 hours a day over a 12 month period.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]229707[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>These were great apart from when a petrol bomb was thrown, the heat took your whiskers off your chin. </p><p><br /></p><p>One day I was driving an unprotected&nbsp; 16 seater into a major riot, a brick came through the drivers side window, hit my helmet, bounced off and my colleague sat behind did not have his visor down, he got it full in the face rendering him unconcious and missing a few teeth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just had some neck ache.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second half of my career I did not have to wear a hat of any type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Happy days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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