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If you plan to need them, also get training ones so you can familiarize yourself on moving around in them.
I would also recommend a suitable first aid kit, and again, familiarize yourself on how to use each piece of equipment, and for which kind of injury. Remember, in a stressful situation, you will fall back on your training.
Training in the real plates will risk degrading their integrity pretty quickly then?
What I've heard from veterans, plates basically needed to be replaced every deployment, roughly a year. The dings and dents from bumping into everything add up and can theoretically compromise the structure.
Mind you, I'd rather wear beat up plates or old plates than no plates. It's a critical and regulated item, and so both the users and the manufacturers err well on the side of caution.
Right on. Thank you for the information.