Carrying cases specially adapted for global positioning system (GPS) apparatus, personal digital assistants (PDA), radios, pagers, and mobile phones; specialty holster for carrying global positioning system (GPS) apparatus, personal digital assistants (PDA), radios, pagers, and mobile phones; protective clothing, namely, protective gloves; protective industrial shoes and boots; trauma pads worn by a user to protect against blunt force trauma to the body; kneepads for public safety personnel and military use; protective load bearing vests adapted for holding ballistic armor; protective load bearing vests adapted for holding tactical equipment; protective load bearing vests adapted for holding ballistic armor and tactical equipment; body armor in the nature of ballistic plate carriers; body armor in the nature of tactical plate carriers; body armor in the nature of modular tactical plate carriers; body armor in the nature of load-bearing plate carriers