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The armor vest and helmet, or Security vest, is a protective vest and helmet worn by the Security guards in Black Mesa.

Overview

An armor vest is standard equipment worn by all Security Guards in Black Mesa. The armor vest is capable of absorbing and deflecting low-caliber rounds and it protects users from explosives and other types weaponry.

The Helmet, like the Security vest, is also standard equipment. The Helmet protects a security guard from damage to the head, but only low-caliber rounds from either a Glock 17, MP5, or shotgun pellets. The helmet does not protect the face, meaning a guard is still vulnerable to bullets. The Helmet also cannot protect users from high-caliber rounds such as a .357 Magnum, Desert Eagle, or the Crossbow. These bullets penetrate through the Helmet, killing the guard instantly.

The Security Vest, Helmet, and Glock 17 or Desert Eagle are important pieces of equipment for all security guards. It is necessary to wear the vest in order to pass a secured area. (In Insecurity, Chapter 2 of Blue Shift, Barney will have to get these for the guard at the counter to let him through, and in this case it's referred to as a Uniform)

Unlike the HEV Suit and Powered Combat Vest, the battery cannot be used for increasing the armor points. Instead, picking up a fresh vest or a fresh helmet is required to increase the armor points. In Half-Life: Blue Shift, picking up the Helmet will gain 40 Armor points while picking up an Armor Vest will gain 60 Armor points. Note that this increment is based on numbers - For example, if the player use cheats to spawn multiple helmets or find more than one at a random spawn point while they have no armor, they can keep picking up the helmets until their armor is full. Same goes for the Armor Vest.

Behind the scenes

Barney helmet hl2 beta — *Half-Life 2* Beta helmet.

The Security Guard's Helmet in the Half-Life Alpha has the abbreviations "MP" (Military Police).

The Opposing Force "Otis" Security Guards were originally supposed to wear helmets, like their "Barney" counterparts. While removed in the main game, the helmet is still present in the multiplayer model.

In the playable Half-Life 2 Beta, the model of a Helmet can be found.

Trivia

The Helmet in GoldSrc versions of Half-Life will protect security guards from damage inflicted by bullets and the Crowbar. However, in Source, the helmet will not protect from 9mm rounds or shotgun buckshot pellets if the guard is friendly to player. However if he is hostile to the player, his helmet will become bulletproof from player's 9mm bullet and shotgun buckshot weapons.

Though the helmet will protect guards from taking damage from low caliber rounds, if the player use cheats and shoot the guard's helmet sufficiently, it is possible to kill the guard. For every 50 bullet of 9mm rounds and 10 shotgun shells, it will cause the guard to lose 1 health point.

Gallery

Pre-release

Retail

List of appearances

Half-Life: Day One (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance) (Security Guards only)
Half-Life (Security Guards only)
Half-Life: Opposing Force (Security Guards only)
Half-Life: Blue Shift (Usable by the player and Security Guards)
Half-Life: Decay (Security Guards only)
Half-Life 2 Beta (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)

Black Mesa
Science Team	Walter Bennet • Wallace Breen • Barney Calhoun • Bernier (cut) • Caughley (cut) • Cook (cut) • Donaldson (cut) • Gina Cross • Gordon Freeman • Colette Green • Harold • Ivan the Space Biker (cut) • Lundeen (cut) • Richard Keller • Isaac Kleiner • Arne Magnusson • Mark (cut) • Mennet (cut) • Myers (cut) • Rosenberg • Eli Vance • Minor Black Mesa employees • Theodore (cut) • Walker (cut)
Security Force	Barney Calhoun • Otis Laurey • Miller
Other personnel	L.M.
Residents	Alyx Vance • Azian Vance
Technology	Anti-Mass Spectrometer • Armor Vest and Helmet • Battery • Black Mesa Announcement System • Charger • Cleansuit • Delivery cart • Emergency flare (cut) • Fire Extinguisher • HEV Suit • Holographic Assistant • Long Jump Module • Medkit • The Mesa Times • MTM 8 • Oxygen Bottles (cut) • Powerup Bottles (cut) • Retinal scanner • Satellite Delivery Rocket • Security Card (cut) • Teleportation • Weapon Box
Weapons	Barnacle Grapple • Crossbow • Ceiling Turret • Colt Python • Crowbar • Desert Eagle • Displacer Cannon • Glock 17 • Gluon Gun • Laser Tripmine • Mark IV Thermonuclear Device • Mk 2 Grenade • MP5 • Pipe Wrench • RPG • Satchel Charge • Spore Launcher • SPAS-12 • Tau Cannon
Locations	Advanced Biological Research Lab • Alien Quarantine Labs • Area 8 Topside Dormitories • Biological Waste Processing Plant • Black Mesa Air Control • Black Mesa desert • Black Mesa Medical Lab • Black Mesa Research Facility • Black Mesa Sectors: Sector A Training Facility / Sector B Coolant Reserve / Sector C Test Labs / Sector D Administration / Sector E Biodome Complex / Sector F Lambda Complex / Sector G Hydro Electric • Black Mesa South Access • Black Mesa Transit System • Freight Yard • Gamma Labs • Level 3 Dormitories • Section A-17 Prototype Labs • Topside Motorpool • Waste Processing Area 3
Transportation	Black Mesa SUV • Black Mesa Transit System • Black Mesa truck
Other	Black Mesa Incident • Black Mesa Personnel • Black Mesa Science Team • Black Mesa Security Force • Lambda logo

Technology
Aperture Science	1500 Megawatt Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button • Advanced Knee Replacement • Aerial Faith Plate • Announcement System • ATLAS and P-body • Borealis • Core Input Receptacle • Crusher • Edgeless Safety Cube Receptacle • Edgeless Safety Cube • Emergency Intelligence Incinerator • Excursion Funnel • Frankenturret • Futbol (cut) • GLaDOS • Hard Light Bridge • High Energy Pellet • Jerry • Laser Field • Long Fall Boot • Material Emancipation Grill • Military Android • Mobility Gels: Conversion Gel / Propulsion Gel / Repulsion Gel • Multitasking Arm • Nanobot • Panel • Party Escort Bot • Personality Construct • Pipe Network • Pneumatic Diversity Vent • Cube Button • Radio • Reassembly Machine • Relaxation Vault • Robot Enrichment • Robot Worker • Scaling Cube • Security Camera • Shredder • Speaker System • Stasis Chamber • Sticking Gel (cut) • Switch • Teleportation • Thermal Discouragement Beam • Unstationary Scaffold • Victory Lift • Vital Apparatus Vent • Weighted Pivot Cube • Weighted Storage Cube • Wheatley
Black Mesa	Anti-Mass Spectrometer • Battery • Black Mesa Announcement System • Charger • Cleansuit • Delivery cart • Emergency flare (cut) • HEV Suit • Holographic Assistant • Long Jump Module • Medkit • The Mesa Times • MTM 8 • Oxygen Bottles (cut) • Powerup Bottles (cut) • Retinal scanner • Satellite Delivery Rocket • Security Card (cut) • Armor Vest and Helmet • Teleportation • Vehicles • Weapon Box • Weapons
Black Ops	Cloaking device • Weapons
Combine	Battery • Breencast • Charger • Citadel Core • Citadel • Barricade • Binoculars • Binoculars (cut) • Bunker • Camera • Cell • Combine Assassin tank (cut) • Combine Big Momma Pod (cut) • Confiscation Field • Dark Energy • Depot • Dispenser • Door lock • Door Tower (cut) • Dr. Breen's Private Reserve • Elevator • Emergency flare • Emitter • Energy Ball • Field Bridge • Force Field • Heavy Door • Heel Springs (cut) • Interface • Light • Medkit • Memory Replacement • Monitor • Overwatch Voice • Power Generator • Restrictor • Security Door • Smart Barrier • Supply Crate • Suppression Field • Teleportation • Television • The Terminal • Vehicles • Watchtower • Weapons • Vorti-Cell (cut)
Resistance	Borealis (cut) • Car battery • Communication • Antlion Detector • Dog • EMP Tool • Fire Extinguisher (cut) • Generator trailer • Drawbridge • Retinal scanner • Supply Crate • Teleportation • Television • Transponder • Vehicles • Weapons • White Forest rocket
Xen	Healing Shower • Thumper
HECU	Powered Combat Vest • Radio • Tactical Map • Welding Torch
Other	Garden Gnome

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 The Helmet, like the Security vest, is also standard equipment. The Helmet protects a security guard from damage to the head, but only low-caliber rounds from either a [[Glock 17]], [[MP5]], or [[HECU SPAS-12|shotgun pellets]]. The helmet does not protect the face, meaning a guard is still vulnerable to bullets. The Helmet also cannot protect users from high-caliber rounds such as a [[.357 Magnum]], [[Desert Eagle]], or the [[Black Mesa Crossbow|Crossbow]]. These bullets penetrate through the Helmet, killing the guard instantly.
-The Security Vest, Helmet, and [[Glock 17]] or [[Desert Eagle]] are important pieces of equipment for all security guards. It is necessary to wear the vest in order to pass a secured area.
+The Security Vest, Helmet, and [[Glock 17]] or [[Desert Eagle]] are important pieces of equipment for all security guards. It is necessary to wear the vest in order to pass a secured area. (In Insecurity, Chapter 2 of Blue Shift, Barney will have to get these for the guard at the counter to let him through, and in this case it's referred to as a Uniform)
-Unlike the [[HEV Suit]] and [[Powered Combat Vest]], the [[battery]] cannot be used for increasing the armor points. Instead, picking up a fresh vest or a fresh helmet is required to increase the armor points. In ''[[Half-Life: Blue Shift]]'', picking up the Helmet will gain 40 Armor points while picking up an Armor Vest will gain 60 Armor points.
+Unlike the [[HEV Suit]] and [[Powered Combat Vest]], the [[battery]] cannot be used for increasing the armor points. Instead, picking up a fresh vest or a fresh helmet is required to increase the armor points. In ''[[Half-Life: Blue Shift]]'', picking up the Helmet will gain 40 Armor points while picking up an Armor Vest will gain 60 Armor points. Note that this increment is based on numbers - For example, if the player use cheats to spawn multiple helmets or find more than one at a random spawn point while they have no armor, they can keep picking up the helmets until their armor is full. Same goes for the Armor Vest.
 == Behind the scenes ==