Ond of the squad leaders in my battalion got royally destroyed because they left their plates in the tent and their company gunny found them. Granted, the sop for patrolling were the interceptor/ spartan 2s; i dont remember the name, but we replaced the old jacket style with them in 08. We were also given plate carriers but i heard only one platoon used them.

Edit: messed up on the names. The interceptor was the old jacket style, and the mtv was the replacement. Not sure where i got spartan 2s from tbh but i thought they were called that.