You very rarely see depictions of soldiers wearing bullet resistant face masks. I understand that these only protect from small caliber weapons but wouldn’t you take all the protection you could get?
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Lots of good answers about the practical issues of ballistic masks, but nothing so far on the psychological element.
Masks are used in movies and in life to dissociate from identity, and to dehumanise the wearer. Soldiers are actually safer when enemies and a potentially hostile civpop can see them as human beings not as faceless goons (this is also why wearing dust masks – especially the stupid ones with skull designs on them – is officially discouraged if not warranted by environmental conditions or opsec).
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