Thales developed this Body Conformal Antenna as part of the Soldier Radio program.
It is PALS compatible and the Antenna whip will bend on one axis to conform to your kit. It is safety certified for use worn against the human body and weighs just 9oz. The Antenna works in 225-450 MHz, 1250-1390 MHz and 1755-1850 MHz. The gain while body worn is -10 to -4 dBi and -5 to 1 dBi in free space. The VSWR < 3.0 for more than 95% of freqs, max < 3.5.
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This seems like it would be pretty nice rather than trying to fit and bend a regular antenna somewhere weird. Hopefully you could set it somewhere on you gear so you could “whip” it out if you needed to raise it over something (like a Afghan rock wall) during a firefight to make clear transmissions. When everyone in my lowly Light Infantry Platoon (nothing swoopy about me) was messing with using stripped-down commo wire through their gear for antennas I stood-fast with my regular antenna and was the only one who could hold my MBITR up and communicate.