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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Publications: State Department Amends ITAR To Add Temporary Export Exemption for Body Armor

   Good information to know.  If anyone else has anything to add, let me know or post it up in comments so we can get it out to the industry.  Cheers. –Matt

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State Department Amends ITAR To Add Temporary Export Exemption for Body Armor

August 7, 2009

The Department of State is amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to add an exemption for the temporary export of body armor for exclusive personal use to destinations not subject to restrictions under the ITAR § 126.1, and to Afghanistan and Iraq under specified conditions, effective August 6, 2009.

In order to use the exemption, the protective equipment must be for the individual’s exclusive use and must be returned to the United States. The individual may not re-export the protective equipment to a foreign person or otherwise transfer ownership. The protective equipment may not be exported to any country where the importation would be in violation of that country’s laws.

The U.S. person declaring the temporary export of body armor to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should use CBP Form 4457, “Certificate of Registration for Personal Effects Taken Abroad.” In the event the body armor is lost or otherwise not returned to the United States, a detailed report about the incident must be submitted to the Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance. The report should describe all attempts to locate the body armor.

Interested parties may submit comments at any time by any of the following methods:

E-mail: DDTCResponseTeam@state.gov with an appropriate subject line.

Mail: Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy, ATTN: Regulatory Change, Section 123.17, SA-1, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20522-0112.

This notice may also be viewed on regulations.gov.

For further information, contact Director Charles B. Shotwell, Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy, Department of State, Telephone (202) 663-2792 or Fax (202) 261-8199; E-mail: DDTCResponseTeam@state.gov. ATTN: Regulatory Change, Section 123.17.

From the blog Official Export Guide

Friday, March 28, 2008

Gear Review: Ops-Core Chin Strap System

Filed under: Gear Review,Photo — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 5:00 PM

March 28, 2008

By Head Jundi

     In this review, I want to talk about the new chin strap that I bought for my RBR Helmet.  For those of you who wear a helmet from time to time, you probably appreciate as much comfort as you can get out of that brick you wear on your head.  Last summer, I wore that helmet a few times for convoy operations, and the chin strap system that comes with the RBR Helmet is really not that comfortable or easily adjustable.  Nor is the padding system in the helmet that great, and I will save that for a different review.  With that said, I decided to try and find a better chin strap, so I could upgrade my helmet.

     Usually what I do, in order to find new equipment or get new ideas about equipment, is to do my searches on Google, and the pertinent forums that talk about what the guys are using out there.  One of my favorite places on the Internet, for gear reviews, is Lightfighter.net .  There is quite a crew on that forum, and they really like to get down to business on reviewing equipment and talking shop.  I usually just read through all the posts, and try to make my determinations based off the various replies about equipment that is being used and liked.  I try to find reviews from guys who are actually in the field, and using  that stuff, because invariably, you stumble upon reviews from guys who really don’t know what they are talking about.  Hey, it’s the Internet, and you have to learn how to search out the good stuff.

     One of the posts on light fighter, under the helmets and body armor section, talked about the latest gizmo’s and doo dads from the 2007 Shot Show.  One of those items was a new chin strap system, produced by a new company called Ops Core.  Now I have stumbled upon all sorts of chin strap systems out there, but this Ops Core chin strap system really caught my eye.  The guys on the forum seemed to like it as well.

     So after stumbling upon this new, dang fangled chin strap system, I now had some search ‘ammo’, and started looking for a cheap price and any other reviews.  I could not find any, and Ops Core, at the time, was the only ones selling said item, and the Light Fighter crew were the only ones talking about it.  So I stuck with the info from Light Fighter, and absorbed it all.  And I tell you what, I was sold.  Here is the chinstrap I was sold on, and this is what the company had to say about it.

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