I've searched around this forum and was unable to find an answer. I hope it hasn't already been answered, though there were a couple other helmet size threads that didn't quite tell me what I needed to know.
I just got my gear today. I first tried on a large helmet and the guy at the clothing place and my corporal said it didn't look quite right, so they gave me a medium after fitting the piece of cardboard over my head.
The thing is, after I got home and fiddled with the straps for a couple of hours, I think the helmet may be too small height-wise.
The areas on the sides that give space for what I assume would be headphones only barely go down to the tops of my ears and a moderate amount of forehead is showing when I have it fitting snugly. I might have a similar problem to that which I usually have with other clothing--I'm tall and skinny and proportional (large shirts these days seem to increase more in width than height, though I was pleasantly surprised with the green army shirts I got today).
Anyhow, my head is very inverted-egg-shaped.
I learned from Wikipedia that our helmet is based on the SPECTRA helmet, and the article came with this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M96_helmet_Denmark_005.jpg
For comparison, I'm showing maybe 1 to 1.5 inches more forehead than the man in the linked photo, who also has the helmet around halfway down his ear, whereas mine barely passes the tip.
Should I go back to the clothing place (or whatever it's called) and get a new one?
And on a semi-related note, the buckles to adjust the front straps on the helmet scrape my glasses. I had the idea of padding them by wrapping band-aids (that I'd probably dye green) around them so that I don't have to replace expensive frames. Would that be okay, or would I get in trouble? I haven't done basic yet so I have little idea what's acceptable.
I just got my gear today. I first tried on a large helmet and the guy at the clothing place and my corporal said it didn't look quite right, so they gave me a medium after fitting the piece of cardboard over my head.
The thing is, after I got home and fiddled with the straps for a couple of hours, I think the helmet may be too small height-wise.
The areas on the sides that give space for what I assume would be headphones only barely go down to the tops of my ears and a moderate amount of forehead is showing when I have it fitting snugly. I might have a similar problem to that which I usually have with other clothing--I'm tall and skinny and proportional (large shirts these days seem to increase more in width than height, though I was pleasantly surprised with the green army shirts I got today).
Anyhow, my head is very inverted-egg-shaped.
I learned from Wikipedia that our helmet is based on the SPECTRA helmet, and the article came with this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M96_helmet_Denmark_005.jpg
For comparison, I'm showing maybe 1 to 1.5 inches more forehead than the man in the linked photo, who also has the helmet around halfway down his ear, whereas mine barely passes the tip.
Should I go back to the clothing place (or whatever it's called) and get a new one?
And on a semi-related note, the buckles to adjust the front straps on the helmet scrape my glasses. I had the idea of padding them by wrapping band-aids (that I'd probably dye green) around them so that I don't have to replace expensive frames. Would that be okay, or would I get in trouble? I haven't done basic yet so I have little idea what's acceptable.
