If you need to wear it you'll have bigger problems than being hot hot hot

I can probably do that.

I did a decent amount of rucking with a layered approach like this back in Wyoming and I liked it. I wore concealable armor under my uniform top, a plate carrier overtly and then at the time I was still running a chest rig over the plate carrier instead of a placard. It did have some amount of movement but the soft armor actually kept it from ever chafing me and it was where it needed to be when I needed it. When traveling in a vehicle I would doff the chest rig along with my pack and still retain my armor for the drive. It worked for me but I never had to fight with it so my experience is limited.

So most of the original hard armor was “ICW” or in-conjunction with and required the soft to reach the rated levels. ESAPIs are still ICW. Additionally, the added footprint provides expanded frag protection vs just the vitals for small arms fire. There is a time and a place for everything though.

But wait! There is more.

First Spear Sleeper and Crye LV-RBAV

They aren’t interchangeable. In my opinion, the MBAV cut really only adds some comfort behind dual radios, that added soft armor coverage is almost negligible.

@@EODFish got it, thank you. What about balcs vs velocity?

Balcs is a more standard cut so you have freedom to move between carriers. I have no experience with the velocity concealment cut but it probably fits better than BALCS and velocity makes equally good carriers. All that said, I love my sleeper.

@@EODFish got it. Thanks for taking time to respond