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This soldier’s “a walking workshop”
February 25th, 2009 | AUSA Winter 2009 | Posted by Gina Cavallaro
Spc. Sarah Ross is wearing a prototype of what the Army’s scientists, planners, engineers and forecasters in general predict — in their most far-reaching imaginations — what a soldier might look like in 2030.
The molded suit of plastic is bolted, buckled and strapped over a loden, textured shirt meant to replicate electronic ink, a network of cableing that can provide a variety of diagnostic information.
Spc. Sarah Ross models Future Soldier 2030
Ross is a medic who has been in the Army for two years and her suit of molded armor is a far-out idea that may never come to be.
“It’s a concept car to show inside Research, Development and Engineer Command and Army Materiel Command so we can sit in a room and say ‘this is what soldiers might look like,’” said RDECOM spokesman Dutch DeGay. “She’s a walking workshop.”
DeGay explained that Ross was chosen to model the suit as a way to remind people that the Army is not made up only of men. Ross said she thinks she “happened to be the right size.”
Whether Future Soldier 2030 comes to look like the girl in the picture is questionable, but it’s a given that the Army’s researchers and engineers get to come up with some of the most fun stuff in the military.
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