Armor Is Useless: Averted. Armor is essential – without it, and especially without its kinetic barriers, your survivability on the modern battlefield is essentially nil. As is the recognizability of your corpse, thereafter, because high-vee flechettes will pulp your bones.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2012/06/16/trope-a-day-armor-is-useless