How heavy is a plate carrier really? How limited is your vision with a CBRN mask? And how complicated can a simple task become once you’re wearing operational gear? In our small “deployment gear challenge,” you can find out for yourself. We’ve prepared a set of playful tasks — some quick, some fiddly, some delightfully absurd. There are small prizes, plenty of laughs, and, along the way, a sense of how this gear slows you down, protects you, or sometimes just gets completely in the way.