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chickenplate
noun
a steel vest that helicopter and other aircrew wore in the Vietnam war, designed as bulletproof US, 1971- We don’t even have the armour plate for our chests—“chicken plate”—that the helicopter pilots did in Vietnam. — Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game, p. xxiii, 1985
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 41, 1991
- Before we climbed in, Terzala grabbed him. “Major,” he said, “today you need to wear your chicken plate. You are not getting on this helo until you put it on.” Franks didn’t usually wear the chicken plate, but he took Terzala’s advice and put it on. — Tom Clancy with Fred Franks Jr., Into the Storm, p. 58, 1991
- [H]e fingered the scar on the side of his face where the AK-47 round had settled in his teeth after rifling through the small observation helicopter, up across his “chicken plate.” — Kregg Jorgenson, Very Crazy G.I., p. 77, 2001
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