Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

What is up everybody?

I have Jim to my right instructor Chris from Vortex Edge across you.

What's up Chris?

Good to have you back.

Good to be back.

This is awesome.

You can see a selection of plate carriers on the table here if you're not.

You can imagine, Chris, before we get into the topic of today's discussion, which is

plate carriers, which I find have been used in a professional setting for a number of

years.

You have used them in a professional setting for a number of years.

They're getting to be more commonplace in the civilian market, but before we kind of

jump into the why, why somebody might need one, some of the terminology, things to look

for in plate carriers.

Let's talk about you Chris.

Let's dive into a little bit about you, your background, and maybe some of your journey

with plate carriers.

My kind of walk with body arm in general and plate carriers started back in 2003 when

I enlisted in record, and that kind of evolved into different types and forms of the actual

carriers themselves.

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