Instead, it goes on your teeth. Yes, your teeth.

California-based Sonitus Technologies is working with the Defense Department to implement the Molar Mic, a miniaturized traditional headset that clips to a user’s back teeth, according to the news release.

The device ditches the need for ear pieces, microphones and wires on the head.

The custom mouthpiece clips onto the user’s back teeth and contains a tiny microphone and speaker-transducer for hearing, the company said. The device uses the teeth and jawbone as a new path for hearing.

Molar Mic is supposed to help communication continue even in extreme conditions that might normally break down radio communication between troops. By placing the device on the teeth, it uses the person’s body to block external noise while reducing gear weight on the user’s head.

The Defense Department contracted Sonitus Technologies for a multiyear, $10 million deal to finish development of the Molar Mic, according to the company and Defense One.

Pararescuemen with the California Air National Guard’s 131st Rescue Squadron in California tested prototypes of the device during rescue operations when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston last year.

“Sonitus Technologies is honored to bring this game-changing technology to our country’s elite military, making them safer and more effective by enabling them to communicate clearly — even in the most extreme situations,” Peter Hadrovic, CEO of Sonitus Technologies, said in the release. “The voice interface sustains communications in dangerous and challenging environments. The Molar Mic is the first in our family of solutions that conventional approaches are unable to address.”

Fortunately for you, Urban Outfitters has your peacocking needs covered! And for only $30, you can purchase your very own “Rothco Reflective Physical Training Belt.”

Match it with your favorite skinny jeans, a scarf and a snow beanie for that perfect summer look that screams, “I don’t care if it’s 104 degrees out and I’m burning alive — I’m fantastic!”

Traditionally used during on-base runs to avoid being hit by cars before or after dark, the trendy new PT belt from Urban Outfitters will make sure you also avoid being hit by compliments.

The store even decided to advertise the monstrosity on a model wearing all black, because nothing says dark and mysterious like having your entire orbital sockets pummeled into submission by a walking highlighter.

Clearly, normal belts are just not hacking it anymore in the civilian sector.

Perhaps people are forgetting where waistlines exist, devolving mentally to the point of utter anatomical ignorance, and the belt allows for a quick glance downward and an excited exclamation, “Oh yeah!”

If only Christopher Walken could resurrect beloved Saturday Night Live character “The Bruce Dickenson” to give us a “I gotta have more glow belt” phenomenon.

Is no military item sacred enough to avoid being flipped into a fashion statement? Do sports not already shove enough digital camouflage into the face of every consumer?

“Buy this $900 digi camo NFL hoodie to support our troops with .001 percent of the proceeds!”

What’s next? Casually wearing a Marine dress blue jacket with a Navy cover for the purpose of style?

Oh wait.

He’d volunteered for a second watch aboard the the coast patrol boat Firebolt, but now the 24-year-old damage controlman and trained boarding officer jumped into an inflatable boat with five others to intercept it.

They never made it. A nervous suicide bomber aboard the mysterious dhow got nervous and triggered the April 24, 2004 detonation near the Iraqi Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal, killing Bruckenthal and two Navy petty officers.

They died, but their efforts alerted nearby security forces to a larger coordinated insurgent attack from other explosive-laden small boats aiming for the oil platforms. Thwarting it prevented further loss of life and a major environmental and economic disaster.

Bruckenthal was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for his courage and initiative.

He was the first Coast Guardsman killed in combat since Vietnam.

On Wednesday, a grateful nation made sure that his sacrifice won’t be forgotten. The Coast Guard commissioned the fast response cutter Nathan Bruckenthal during special ceremony in Alexandria, Virginia that drew his family, friends and fellow Coasties.

They included Bruckenthal’s 13-year-old daughter Harper. She never got the chance to meet her father before he died a hero

“[Bruckenthal] volunteered to go on that second deployment and volunteered to take the second watch that day,” Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said during his commissioning address. “His story is one of dedication, a legacy of courage and service before self.”

After the ceremony, Bruckenthal’s sister Noabeth told Military Times that there were “tears” and “swelling pride” when their family first saw the cutter bearing her brother’s name. .

“To be a continuing prat of tradition and have this legacy for Nathan’s daughter, for Nathan, for all of Nathan’s friends and family … we’re so honored,” she said.

Bruckenthal’s father, Ric, said the cutter is a tangible legacy for his son, something “you can touch that will bear his name.”

“The last story is the sad story, but it’s also a great story because we don’t know how many lives he and the crew saved that day,” he said. “We’re very proud of that. We’re never going to forget him.”

The 154-foot fast response cutter will be homeported in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.

“He is our hero. He is our legacy. He is our brother,” said Lt. Bryan Kilcoin, the cutter’s commander.

Maritime Enforcement Specialist Joe Ruggiero served with Bruckenthal aboard the Firebolt in the Persian Gulf. He remembered him has a fun Coastie, always cracking jokes.

“Even if we were having a bad day, he’d always make it better,” Ruggiero told Military Times. “You can still be a professional, but you can also have fun while you’re doing it.”

In a ceremony aboard the cutter before the commissioning, Ruggerio reenlisted in the Coast Guard.

“I never thought this would happen in my lifetime,” Ruggiero said. “No one, especially in the Coast Guard, no one’s forgotten.”

An Air Force sergeant during his service in Vietnam as a disc jockey with the Armed Forces Radio Service, Cronauer began his early morning show, “Dawnbuster.” with the iconic words “Goooood morning, Vietnam!”

The 1987 movie, starring Robin Williams, turned that line into a national catch-phrase years after the war ended.

Although Cronauer co-wrote the film that was loosely based on his time as a DJ, it was rewritten several times, each time with more creative license, to take full advantage of Williams’ outsize comedic talents.

“Williams’ madcap banter … was an exaggeration of the real Cronauer,” wrote Rick Fredericksen, a Marine newsman at American Forces Vietnam Network, for a story that appeared in Vietnam magazine, a sister publication, in December. “In a 2014 interview with me after Williams’ death, Cronauer shared one of his favorite observations about the star’s portrayal of him: ‘If I did even half the things that Robin did in the movie, I’d still be in Leavenworth [federal penitentiary]. … He was a comedic genius. ‘ ”

Cronauer did, however, push back against the staid military conventions of the time that pushed out “entertainment” that was deadly dull. With humor, imagination and enthusiasm, he produced radio broadcasts that were truly aimed at the troops fighting the war and, for that reason, became a beloved figure e and It seemed as though its mission had very little to do with improving the morale of the American community in Vietnam.

In the movie, Cronauer, as portrayed by Williams, befriends a Vietnamese boy who turns out to be a Viet Cong terrorist, and he is forced to leave Vietnam before his tour is over. None of that actually happened.

Even so, Cronauer told Military Times in 2014 that he enjoyed Williams’ performance.

“It was never intended to be a point-by-point accurate biography,” Cronauer told Military Times. “It was intended to be a piece of entertainment, and it certainly was that. It was nominated for an Academy Award, and you don’t get much better than that.”

Cronauer left the Air Force as a sergeant in 1966 and eventually served as an adviser to the deputy assistant secretary of defense from 2001 to 2009, according to Cronauer’s obituary.

In between, he owned an ad agency, managed a radio station, was a TV anchorman and a voice actor. He also worked with the Pentagon to raise awareness of prisoners of war and those missing in action.

Cronauer, who lived in Virginia, was preceded in death by his wife, Jeane, according to his obituary.

President Trump has confirmed reports that he wants to make big changes to the iconic fleet of Boeing jets.

“Boeing gave us a good deal. And we were able to take that,” Trump told CBS Evening News. “But I said, ‘I wonder if we should use the same baby blue colors?’ And we’re not.”

The 45th president wants to do away with the blue color scheme that’s donned Air Force One jets since 1962 with President John F. Kennedy.

“Red, white and blue,” Trump told CBS. “Air Force One is going to be incredible. It’s gonna be the top of the line, the top in the world. And it’s gonna be red, white and blue, which I think is appropriate.”

The custom presidential jets were originally designed with a red and gold color scheme, but JFK worked with a French industrial designer to create the blue color scheme we see today, according to the New England Historical Society.

The Air Force on Tuesday formally awarded Boeing a $3.9 billion fixed-price contract to design, test and deliver two presidential aircraft by 2024, a deal that had been informally reached with the president in February. A statement from the White House Office of the Press Secretary said the deal would save taxpayers more than “$1.4 billion from the initially proposed $5.3 billion cost-plus contract,” although numerous media reports had pegged the cost at closer to $4 billion, meaning a savings closer to a few hundred million dollars at most.

Although the new Air Force One jets won’t be ready until 2024, the last year of Trump’s presidency if he is re-elected, Trump wants future presidents to enjoy this new paint job for years to come.

“I hate to say this, it’s gonna be a long time,” Trump said. “It’s a very complex project. But by the time it gets built, you’re gonna have many presidents, hopefully, use it and enjoy it.”

What do you think about the idea?

More than 20 years after the effort began, a World War II hero has finally received the Medal of Honor.

Army 1st Lt. Garlin Conner was originally awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for valor, for his actions during 28 months in combat during World War II as an intelligence officer.

But Conner’s family and friends took up the fight to upgrade the award to the nation’s highest valor award, continuing the effort after Conner died in 1998 at age 79.

And on Tuesday, Conner was honored during a ceremony at the White House.

“Today we pay tribute to this Kentucky farm boy who stared down evil with the strength of a warrior and the heart of a true hero,” President Donald Trump said during his remarks.

Conner was assigned to K Company, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division when in January 1945 he volunteered to run 400 yards through “an intense concentration of enemy artillery” in Houssen, France, according to Conner’s Distinguished Service Cross citation.

This was after Conner sneaked out of a field hospital, where he was being treated for a painful hip wound, to rejoin the fight, Trump said.

Along the way, Conner unrolled a spool of telephone wire so he could use a field telephone to direct attacks on the enemy.

“He ran 400 yards, dodging shrapnel, bullets, shells everywhere, artillery trying to hit him,” Trump said. “They saw him; they couldn’t get him. He was going every different way. He looked like an NFL star, all the while laying telephone wire wherever he went.”

Conner raced to the front of the American line and laid down in a shallow ditch, Trump said.

“In front of the lone American soldier were six German tanks and hundreds of German soldiers,” the president said.

As bullets flew all around him, Conner directed friendly artillery fire to hold off six German tanks and about 600 German infantrymen.

As shells exploded 25 yards from him, he set up an observation post, where he stayed for more than three hours, the citation said.

“He had shells dropped right on him,” Trump said.

“At one point, a German soldier came within five yards of Lieutenant Conner before being shot and killed,” Trump added. “For three hours, the bloody battle raged on.”

Conner was individually credited with stopping more than 150 German troops, destroying the tanks and “disintegrating the powerful enemy assault force and preventing heavy loss of life in his own outfit,” the citation said.

Trump praised Conner for his “extraordinary courage and devotion that burned like a righteous fire in his soul.”

During the White House ceremony Tuesday, Conner’s widow, Pauline, accepted the Medal of Honor on her husband’s behalf.

“He was a very humble person,” Pauline told reporters in April. “He loved his country, he loved his family, he loved veterans, and I’m very proud of him.”

Trump called Pauline in April to tell her he had approved the Medal of Honor for her late husband.

“He said, ‘I have been studying his records, and he has a magnificent record. One of the best military records I’ve seen in a long time,’” Pauline said.

According to language in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2018, President Trump was given the authority to award the Medal of Honor to Conner.

Conner’s widow said she learned more about what her husband did in the Army now than in the 57 years they lived together.

“He was very private with his military record,” she said. “He didn’t discuss it very much. He felt like people would think he was bragging.”

Pauline said it was a relief when she found out President Trump had approved the medal for Conner.

“I had got to the place that I was about to give up,” she said. “I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime, because I am 88 years old.”

Conner is said to be the second-most decorated soldier from World War II, after Maj. Audie Murphy, who is commonly referred to as the most decorated WWII soldier.

Conner, who joined the Army in 1941 and was discharged in 1945, also received four Silver Stars, one Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.

The effort to upgrade Conner’s award began when Richard Chilton, a former Green Beret, wrote to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records saying Conner should be honored. Chilton was researching details of his uncle’s military career, and he came across Conner, who had served with Chilton’s uncle.

The board rejected the application for upgrading Conner’s Distinguished Service Cross to a Medal of Honor in 1997 and turned away an appeal in 2000.

Pauline Conner collected three eyewitness accounts of Conner’s actions and resubmitted the case to the board in 2008.

Nothing happened, and after support grew from lawmakers, veterans, historians and authors in 2014, a Kentucky district court ruled that Conner’s widow had resubmitted the case two years after the statute of limitations expired.

The decision then went back to the Army board, which went against the advice of its staff and the judge and voted unanimously in 2015 that sworn statements from those who served with Conner were “sufficient to warrant a recommendation.”

“Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner was indeed a giant,” Trump said. “In his daring, his devotion, and his duty, he was larger than life. And that, he was. He will never, ever be forgotten.”

What do you think about this?

(As fun as this sounds, I’ve never been able to participate in this. Thanks, Mom and Dad.)

This summer, the soda company is adding a new twist to their Share-A-Coke campaign.

People can now “share” a Coke with a sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, hero or veteran.

(What happened to “soldier” or “Marine”?)

The cans are $1 and sold exclusively at Dollar General stores through late September. Coca-Cola and Dollar General will then donate $100,000 to the USO.

Enjoy! Unless you’re in the Army or Marine Corps.

Four veterans were honored with Medal of Courage awards on Capitol Hill on May 22.

They didn’t give any speeches, but not just because they were humble — the four vets are retired military working dogs.

The American Humane Lois Pope K-9 Medal of Courage is the highest honor for military dogs that displayed extraordinary valor and service to their country.

“These remarkable dogs have given us their best,” veterans advocate Lois Pope said at the ceremony. “They have put their own lives on the line to protect us, to defend us, and to save us.”

The four recipients were:

• Jag, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever who served with the Army for seven years.
• Taba, a 9-year-old Dutch shepherd who served as an Army Special Forces multipurpose canine.
  
• Summer, a 7-year-old Labrador retriever who served in Afghanistan and is now a member of a TSA K-9 team for the Amtrak Police Department in Washington, D.C.
  
• Taker, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever who served with the Marine Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  

Marine veteran Kevin Zuniga deployed with Taker to Afghanistan with 1st Tank Battalion out of Twentynine Palms, California.

“We met a few months before we deployed because they were asking for volunteers to be dog handlers,” Zuniga told Military Times.

Unfortunately, the Marine wasn’t selected at first, but when someone had to drop out, Zuniga took the spot.

“It was meant to be, I guess,” he said.

Zuniga and Taker conducted route clearing in Afghanistan for seven months.

The dogs and their handlers remained in the trucks until the dogs were needed to clear a checkpoint.

“If someone happens to walk by, it’s an easy target for the enemy,” he said. “But dogs are lower to the ground, faster to run around and a lot lighter so they wouldn’t trigger any explosives.”

Taker was also a morale booster for the deployed troops.

“They could pet him and play with him and kind of forget about what we’re doing over there a little bit,” he said.

Once the pair returned from deployment, Zuniga had to give Taker back to the government.

“I still had two years left with the Marines, so I didn’t see him for two years,” Zuniga said. “In 2012, I was discharged, and it just so happened that he was getting discharged as well.”

After doing some research and connecting with someone who knew where Taker was, Zuniga was able to adopt the dog he served with.

“He’s been with us since the end of 2012,” Zuniga said. “We picked him up at the airport, and he still recognized me.”

Zuniga said he was surprised and happy when he found out his four-legged companion was picked for the Medal of Courage award.

“I’ve seen the competition from previous years,” he said. “I’m happy because he’s been through a lot. He deployed with a different handler to Iraq.”

The Marine said military dogs aren’t always recognized as much as their human counterparts.

“They’re just seen as tools sometimes,” he said. “It shines some light toward the topic of military dogs and makes people think about the dogs that didn’t make it or back, or the people that didn’t make it back.”

Air Force veteran Micah Jones echoed Zuniga’s sentiment.

“In the military, a lot of the handlers are the ones getting the ribbons and the medals,” he said. “Dogs don’t really get that much.”

Although Jones and Summer both served, they didn’t find each other until their civilian jobs brought them together working with Amtrak police.

The former security forces airman met Summer in 2014 after Jones’ previous canine partner retired.

“She’s a burst of energy,” he said. “I checked her vet records, and that’s when I learned she was over in Kandahar, [Afghanistan].”

Jones made contact with Summer’s previous handler and found out she served with Marines conducting routine patrols, clearing routes, finding weapon caches and even coming under fire.

“Me being a veteran, and learning about her being a war dog and military veteran as well, it was an honor,” he said of being paired with Summer.

She wears her Afghanistan campaign ribbon and Global War on Terrorism service medal on her work harness every day.

“I want the public to know she’s a war dog,” Jones said. “She served her time.”

Football players can now stay in the locker room when the “Star Spangled Banner” is played before games, but they are required to stand if they come out to the field during the song, according to the Associated Press.

The lack of policy led to some confusion, including when Pittsburgh Steelers left tackle Alejandro Villanueva stood with his hand over his heart during the national anthem in September.

The former Army Ranger who served three tours in Afghanistan was applauded for standing alone while his other teammates remained in the tunnel behind him.

However, the next day he said he just wanted to get a glimpse of the American flag and wasn’t trying to make a statement or set himself apart from the Steelers organization.

Kaepernick, who used to play for the San Francisco 49ers, said he was kneeling during the anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality.

Many were divided on the action. Some believed Kaepernick was free to express his opinion through a peaceful statement like kneeling, but others believed he was disrespecting the flag and troops who had served and died for it.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the change in policy was unanimously approved by the owners during their spring meeting, according to the Associated Press. However, it was met with skepticism by the players’ union.

“We want people to be respectful of the national anthem. We want people to stand,” Goodell said. “That’s all personnel, and to make sure they treat this moment in a respectful fashion. That’s something that we think we owe. We’ve been very sensitive on making sure that we give players choices, but we do believe that moment is an important moment and one that we are going to focus on.”

If anyone decides to kneel on the field during the anthem, the team — not specific players — will be fined.