Eli5 why aren’t ballistic masks more common in warfare?

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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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No God damn way I would have worn it.

My shit was already heavy enough. Besides I was a stupid 19 year old. I had to be reminded to wear by ballistic glasses and probably would have rolled without my frag vest often enough if they would have let me.

No. Even if they would have worked we wouldn’t have worm them.

Sounds heavy, hot and dirty.

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