{"id":15944,"date":"2022-12-20T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=15944"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:23:37","slug":"news-sen-ossoffs-bipartisan-push-to-upgrade-female-servicemember-body-armor-passes-congress-with-bipartisan-support","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/news-sen-ossoffs-bipartisan-push-to-upgrade-female-servicemember-body-armor-passes-congress-with-bipartisan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>NEWS: Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Bipartisan Push to Upgrade Female Servicemember Body Armor Passes Congress with Bipartisan Support<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan push to upgrade female servicemember body armor passed Congress and will soon become law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Ossoff, Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) successfully secured their bipartisan provision in this year\u2019s national defense bill to help ensure that women in the military have quality and proper-fitting gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hearing directly from servicemembers at Ft. Stewart about the potential risks and injuries posed by ill-fitting body armor earlier this year, Sen. Ossoff brought Democratic and Republican colleagues together to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.41nbc.com\/sen-ossoff-making-push-for-better-fitting-body-armor-for-female-military-members\/\">sound the alarm<\/a>&nbsp;on the need for upgraded female and small stature body armor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is an outrage that female soldiers can be at greater risk of injury or death because they don&#8217;t have proper-fitting personal protective equipment,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI brought lawmakers on both sides of the aisle together to get our servicemembers the equipment and protection they need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although women now make up a high percentage of the military, many female servicemembers struggle to find equipment that accounts for their size or frame, leaving them susceptible to harm or injury during combat and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The provision passed as part of this year\u2019s&nbsp;<em>National Defense Authorization Act,&nbsp;<\/em>which is expected to be signed into law later this week.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan push to upgrade female servicemember body armor passed Congress and will soon become law. Sens. Ossoff, Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) successfully secured their bipartisan provision in this year\u2019s national defense bill to help ensure that women in the military have quality and proper-fitting gear. After [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15944","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/15944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/15944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15946,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/15944\/revisions\/15946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}