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Commission on November&nbsp;4, 2009.</font></b></p>

<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">File No.&nbsp;333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold;">UNITED STATES</font></b></p>

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AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">WASHINGTON, DC&#160; 20549</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold;">FORM&nbsp;S-8</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">REGISTRATION
STATEMENT</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">UNDER</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold;">FORCE PROTECTION, INC.</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</font></p>

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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">84-1383888</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or <br>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">9801
Highway 78, Building No.&nbsp;1, Ladson, South Carolina</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Address of Principal Executive Office)( Zip Code)</font></p>

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<p align="center" style="letter-spacing:.25pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:0pt;">FORCE
PROTECTION, INC.</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="letter-spacing:.25pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:0pt;">DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="letter-spacing:.25pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;letter-spacing:0pt;">(Full title of the plan)</font></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Lenna Ruth
Macdonald</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">9801 Highway 78, Building No.&nbsp;1</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Ladson, South Carolina</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">(843) 574-7000<br>
</font></b>(Telephone Number,
including area code, for agent for service)</p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Copy to:</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">John J. Concannon,&nbsp;Esq.</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Bingham McCutchen LLP</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">One Federal Street</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Boston, Massachusetts&#160; 02110</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Telephone:&#160;
(617) 951-8000</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Facsimile:&#160;
(617) 951-8736</font></p>

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by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.&#160; See definitions of &#147;large
accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2
of the Exchange Act. (Check one):</font></p>

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  </font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Securities To Be Registered</font></b></p>
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  </font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Maximum</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;"><br>
  </font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Offering Price</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;"><br>
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  </font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Maximum</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;"><br>
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  </font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Fee</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 10.0pt;text-indent:-10.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Deferred Compensation Plan Obligations (1)</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$33,000,000 (2)</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="12%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:12.64%;">
  <p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">100%</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.78%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;(1)</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="13%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:13.22%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$33,000,000 (2)</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.54%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$</font></p>
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  <p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$1,841.40</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(1)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Relates to Deferred Compensation Plan
Obligations pursuant to the Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc. Deferred Compensation
Plan. The Deferred Compensation Plan Obligations are unsecured obligations of
the Company to pay deferred compensation in the future in accordance with the
terms of the Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The amount being registered is based
upon an estimate of the amount of compensation to be deferred by participants
in the Deferred Compensation Plan and is estimated solely for the purpose of
calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules&nbsp;457(o)&nbsp;and (h)&nbsp;of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</font></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">PART&nbsp;I</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE SECTION&nbsp;10(a)&nbsp;PROSPECTUS</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Force
Protection,&nbsp;Inc., a Nevada corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) is filing this
Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 (the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;) relating
to $33,000,000 of unfunded and unsecured obligations (the &#147;Obligations&#148;) of the
Company issuable under the Deferred Compensation Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;).</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 1.&#160; Plan
Information.</font></b>  <b>*</b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 2.&#160;
Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information. *</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">*&#160; </font></b>Information required by Part&nbsp;I to be
contained in the Section&nbsp;10(a)&nbsp;Prospectus is omitted from this
Registration Statement in accordance with Rule&nbsp;428 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;<u>Securities Ac</u>t&#148;), and in accordance with
the Introductory Note to Part&nbsp;I of Form&nbsp;S-8.</p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">PART&nbsp;II</font></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 3.&#160;
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the &#147;<u>Commission</u>&#148;) pursuant to the Securities Act or the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;<u>Exchange Act</u>&#148;), are
hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:</font></p>

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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(a)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>The Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31,
2008 filed on March&nbsp;26, 2009;</p>

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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(b)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a)&nbsp;or
15(d)&nbsp;of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
Registrant&#146;s annual report referred to in (a)&nbsp;above; and</p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(c)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>The section entitled &#147;Description of Registrant&#146;s Securities to be
Registered&#148; contained in the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;8-A
(File No.&nbsp;001-33253) filed on January&nbsp;12, 2007 under Section&nbsp;12(b)&nbsp;of
the Exchange Act, including all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of
updating such description.</p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In
addition, all documents filed with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d)&nbsp;of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities registered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all of such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 4.&#160;
Description of Securities.</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This Registration Statement covers $33,000,000 of
Obligations to be offered pursuant to the Plan. Under the Plan, a select group
of management or highly compensated employees, including the Company&#146;s
executive officers, as determined in its sole discretion by the Company&#146;s Board
of Directors </font></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">2</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">or
the committee appointed by the Board of Directors, may participate in the
Plan.&#160; The Plan is not intended to meet
the qualifications of Section&nbsp;401(a)&nbsp;of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (the &#147;Code&#148;), but is intended to constitute a plan of deferred
compensation that complies with the requirements for deferral of income
taxation under Section&nbsp;409A of the Code of 1986.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The initial Plan year will begin as of November&nbsp;1,
2009 and end on December&nbsp;31, 2009 and subsequent Plan years will begin on January&nbsp;1
and end on December&nbsp;31.&#160; During the
initial Plan year, eligible employees will be able to defer up to 85% of their November&nbsp;and
December&nbsp;salary and up to 16% of any 2009 annual bonus paid in 2010.&#160; For subsequent Plan years, eligible employees
may defer up to 85% of their annual salary and up to 85% of any annual bonus on
a pre-tax basis.&#160; All participant
deferrals shall be 100% vested.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In addition, the Company may elect to make matching
contribution on cash compensation that could not be recognized under the
Company&#146;s tax-qualified Section&nbsp;401(k)&nbsp;plan due to the Code Section&nbsp;401(a)(17)
compensation limit, which is $245,000 for 2009.&#160;
The Plan matching contribution will be equal to the matching
contribution established for the Company&#146;s 401(k)&nbsp;plan.&#160; For the initial Plan year, all participants
in the Plan will receive a 3% match on 2009 cash compensation above
$245,000.&#160; For 2010, all participants in
the Plan will receive a 4% match on the 2010 cash compensation above the Code Section&nbsp;401(a)(17)
compensation limit in 2010.&#160; Under the
terms of the Plan, the Company may also provide discretionary contributions to
participants in subsequent years.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The participants will be provided with investment
options for the deferred funds as determined by the Company&#146;s Board of
Directors or Board appointed committee.&#160;
In no event shall the deferred funds be invested in the Company&#146;s common
stock.&#160; The Obligations are not
convertible into any other security of the Company.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Deferred funds may be distributed as more
specifically provided in the Plan, during employment, following separation of
employment, upon retirement and in the event of disability or death.&#160; Upon separation of service with the Company
within two years following a change of control of the Company, participants
will receive vested account balances in the form of a lump-sum payment within
ninety days of termination.&#160; The
Obligations are not subject, in any manner, to anticipation, sale, transfer,
assignment or encumbrance and shall not be assigned as security for a loan.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Plan does not require the Company to establish
any trust, escrow account, or other mechanism to hold the participant deferrals
and Company contributions.&#160; However, the
Company has established a grantor trust, known as a &#147;rabbi trust,&#148; to hold
participant deferrals and Company contributions.&#160; While participants shall have a beneficial
interest in the trust&#146;s assets, to the extent provided under the terms and
conditions of the trust agreement and the Plan only, no participant in the Plan
has any preferred claim to any assets of the trust.&#160; The assets of the rabbi trust are available
to general creditors of the Company in the event of the Company&#146;s insolvency.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Company may amend the Plan at any time, except
that no such amendment or termination shall adversely affect a Participant&#146;s
right to Obligations in the amount of the Participant&#146;s accounts as of the date
of such amendment or termination.&#160; The
Company may terminate the Plan at any time and pay the participants their
vested Obligations in a single lump sum or on a schedule determined by the
Board of Directors.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The obligations of the Company under the Plan are
general unsecured obligations.&#160;
Participants in the Plan shall have the status of general unsecured
creditors of the Company.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
foregoing description of the Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to
the full text of the Plan, which is attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 and is
incorporated herein by reference.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 5.&#160;
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">None.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 6.&#160;
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Registrant is
incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada. Section&nbsp;78.7502 of the
Nevada Revised Statutes (the &#147;Nevada Statute&#148;) permits a corporation to
indemnify any person in any proceeding (except an action by or in the right of
the corporation) by reason of being a director or officer of the corporation
for expenses, including attorneys&#146; fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred. A corporation may indemnify any
person in any action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a
judgment in its favor by reason of being a director or officer of the
corporation for expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys&#146;
fees actually and reasonably incurred, except that indemnification may not be
made for any matter as to which such a person has been finally adjudged by a
court to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the
corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court determines that the
person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the
court deems proper. In either case, however, to be eligible for
indemnification, the person to be indemnified must not be found to have
breached his fiduciary duties in a manner involving intentional misconduct,
fraud or a knowing violation of law, or must have acted in good faith and in a
manner which he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests
of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. Section&nbsp;78.7502 of
the Nevada Statute also provides that to the extent a director or officer has
been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any such action, he
must be indemnified by the corporation against expenses, including attorneys&#146;
fees, actually and reasonably incurred. Section&nbsp;78.752 of the Nevada
Statute permits a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance or make other
financial arrangements on behalf of the corporation&#146;s directors and officers
for any liability and expenses incurred by them in such capacity, whether or
not the corporation has the authority to indemnify them against such liability
and expenses.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Registrant&#146;s charter
provides that the Registrant shall indemnify, to the maximum extent permitted
by law, any person who is or was a director, officer, agent, fiduciary or
employee of the Registrant against any claim, liability or expenses arising
against or incurred by such person made party to a proceeding because he is or
was a director, officer, agent, fiduciary or employee of the Registrant or
because he was a director, officer, agent, fiduciary or employee of the
Registrant or because he is or was serving another entity as a director,
officer, partner, trustee, employee, fiduciary or agent at the Registrant&#146;s
request. The Registrant shall further have the authority to the maximum extent
permitted by law to purchase and maintain insurance providing such
indemnification.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Registrant&#146;s by-laws
provide that the Registrant shall indemnify any director, officer, agent,
fiduciary or employee of the Registrant, or any person serving another entity
in such capacity at the request of the Registrant, against reasonably incurred
expenses (including any attorneys&#146; fees), judgments, penalties, fines and
amounts paid in settlement reasonably incurred by him in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if it is determined by a majority vote of a meeting
of the board of directors at which a quorum is present (excluding directors
that are parties to the proceeding) that he conducted himself in good faith and
that he reasonably believed (i)&nbsp;in the case of conduct in his official
capacity with the Registrant, that his conduct was in the Registrant&#146;s best
interests, or (ii)&nbsp;in all other cases (except criminal cases), that his
conduct was at least not opposed to the Registrant&#146;s best interests, or (iii)&nbsp;in
the </font></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">case of any criminal
proceeding, that he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was
unlawful.&#160; No such determination by the
board of directors is required where such person was wholly successful in
defense of the action as to which he was entitled to indemnification or if
indemnification is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.&#160; If a quorum of directors not parties to the
proceeding cannot be obtained, then the determination shall be made by a
majority vote of a committee of the board of directors consisting of two or
more directors not parties to the proceeding.&#160;
If such a quorum of the board of directors cannot be obtained and such a
committee cannot be established, or the board of directors or committee so
directs, the determination shall be made by independent legal counsel or by a
vote of the shareholders.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Reasonable expenses,
including attorney&#146;s fees, incurred in defending an action, suit or proceeding
on behalf of an indemnified person may be paid by the Registrant in advance of
the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of a
written affirmation of the indemnified person&#146;s good faith belief that he has
met the standards of conduct prescribed in the Registrant&#146;s by-laws, a written
undertaking to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that he did
not meet the prescribed standards of conduct and a determination is made as
described in the preceding paragraph that the facts as then known would not
preclude indemnification.&#160; Any
indemnification or advance of expenses to a director arising out of a
proceeding by or on behalf of the Registrant shall be reported in writing to
the stockholders with or before the notice of the next stockholder&#146;s meeting.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In
addition, pursuant to certain Indemnification Agreements (the &#147;Indemnification
Agreements&#148;) between the Registrant and its directors and officers, the
Registrant agreed to indemnify such directors and officers to the fullest
extent permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada. Among other things, the
Indemnification Agreements provide indemnification procedures, advancement of
expenses during proceedings subject to indemnification, indemnification for
claims of contribution,&#160; and mechanisms
for reviewing executive conduct in connection with a claim for indemnification.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Registrant also
maintains a directors&#146; and officers&#146; insurance policy pursuant to which our
directors and officers are insured against liability for actions taken in their
capacities as directors and officers.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 7.&#160; Exemption
from Registration Claimed</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Not applicable.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 8.&#160;
Exhibits.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement:</font></p>

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 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;<br>
  Number</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;Description</font></b></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Articles
  of Incorporation of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc. (incorporated by reference to
  Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the
  fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2007 filed on September&nbsp;15, 2008).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.2</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 to the Registrant&#146;s Annual
  Report Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2007 filed
  on September&nbsp;15, 2008).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">5</font></p>

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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="95%" style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:.25in;width:95.0%;">
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;<br>
  Number</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;Description</font></b></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.3</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Company&#146;s Current
  Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed November&nbsp;26, 2008)</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.4</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Second
  Amended and Restated By-Laws of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc. (incorporated by
  referenced to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 to the Registrant&#146;s Current Report on
  Form&nbsp;8-K filed November&nbsp;26, 2008).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">5.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Opinion
  of counsel (filed herewith).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">10.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Force
  Protection,&nbsp;Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (filed herewith).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent
  of Grant Thornton LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed
  herewith).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.2</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent
  of counsel (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="9%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:9.84%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">24.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.66%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Power
  of Attorney (included in signature page&nbsp;hereto).</font></p>
  </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 9.&#160;
Undertakings</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1. <i><u style="font-style:italic;">&#160;Item 512(a)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K:</u></i></font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(1)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; To file, during any period in which
offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement:</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; To include any prospectus required
by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3)&nbsp;of the Securities Act of 1933;</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; To reflect in the prospectus any
facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement
(or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in
the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
the registration statement.&#160;
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of
securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not
exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424(b)&nbsp;if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent
change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of
Registration Fee&#148; table in the effective registration statement;</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:1.0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; To include any material information
with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement.</font></p>

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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Provided, however,</font></i> that paragraphs (1)(i)&nbsp;and (1)(ii)&nbsp;do
not apply if the registration statement is on Form&nbsp;S-8, and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those</p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">paragraphs
is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d)&nbsp;of the Exchange Act
of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) that are incorporated by reference in the
registration statement.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; That, for the purpose of determining
any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial <i>bona fide</i>
offering thereof.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(3)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; To remove from registration by means
of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which
remain unsold at the termination of the offering.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">2.&#160; <i><u style="font-style:italic;">Item 512(b)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K.</u></i></font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant&#146;s
annual report pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a)&nbsp;or Section&nbsp;15(d)&nbsp;of
the Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
benefit plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section&nbsp;15(d)&nbsp;of the
Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration
statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial <i>bona fide</i>
offering thereof.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.&#160; <i><u style="font-style:italic;">Item 512(h)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K.</u></i></font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.</font></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">SIGNATURES
AND POWER OF ATTORNEY</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the Town of Ladson, State of South Carolina, on this 6th day of
November, 2009.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:100.0%;">
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  <td width="45%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:45.26%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="54%" colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:54.74%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">FORCE
  PROTECTION INC.</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="45%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:45.26%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="54%" colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:54.74%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="45%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:45.26%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="6%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:6.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">By:</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/
  Michael Moody</font></p>
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 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="45%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:45.26%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="6%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:6.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Name:
  Michael Moody</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="6%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:6.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Title:
  President and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
hereby constitutes and appoints Michael Moody, Charles Mathis and Lenna Ruth
Macdonald, and each of them, as such person&#146;s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact
and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person
and in such person&#146;s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign
any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and additions to
this registration statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact
and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes
as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or such person&#146;s substitute or
substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement
has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of the 6th
day of November, 2009.</font></p>

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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Signature</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Capacity</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ MICHAEL MOODY</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Chief
  Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
  (principal executive officer)</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Michael Moody</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ CHARLES MATHIS</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Chief
  Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Charles Mathis</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ LTG ROGER G. THOMPSON, JR.</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;LTG
  Roger G. Thompson,&nbsp;Jr. (Ret.)</font></p>
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  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ JOHN S. DAY</font>  </font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">John S. Day</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ B. HERB ELLIS</font>  </font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">B. Herb Ellis</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ KENNETH A. MERLAU</font>  </font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Kenneth A. Merlau</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/S/ JOHN W. PAXTON, SR.</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.34%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;John
  W. Paxton,&nbsp;Sr.</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="3%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:3.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="48%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:48.58%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">EXHIBIT
INDEX</font></u></b></p>

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 <tr>
  <td width="10%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;<br>
  Number</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;Description</font></b></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Articles
  of Incorporation of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc. (incorporated by reference to
  Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the
  fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2007 filed on September&nbsp;15, 2008).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.2</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 to the Registrant&#146;s Annual
  Report Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2007 filed
  on September&nbsp;15, 2008).</font></p>
  </td>
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 <tr>
  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.3</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Company&#146;s Current
  Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed November&nbsp;26, 2008)</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.4</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Second
  Amended and Restated By-Laws of Force Protection,&nbsp;Inc. (incorporated by
  referenced to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 to the Registrant&#146;s Current Report on
  Form&nbsp;8-K filed November&nbsp;26, 2008).</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">5.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Opinion
  of counsel (filed herewith).</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">10.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:87.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Force
  Protection,&nbsp;Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (filed herewith).</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="10%" valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:10.0%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;width:2.92%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.1</font></p>
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  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent
  of Grant Thornton LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed
  herewith).</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.2</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent
  of counsel (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1).</font></p>
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  of Attorney (included in signature page&nbsp;hereto).</font></p>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on November 4, 2009.
File No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC  20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
FORCE PROTECTION, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
NEVADA
84-1383888
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or
Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
9801
Highway 78, Building No. 1, Ladson, South Carolina
(Address of Principal Executive Office)( Zip Code)
FORCE
PROTECTION, INC.
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
Lenna Ruth
Macdonald
Force Protection, Inc.
9801 Highway 78, Building No. 1
Ladson, South Carolina
(Name and address of agent for service)
(843) 574-7000
(Telephone Number,
including area code, for agent for service)
Copy to:
John J. Concannon, Esq.
Bingham McCutchen LLP
One Federal Street
Boston, Massachusetts  02110
Telephone: 
(617) 951-8000
Facsimile: 
(617) 951-8736
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.  See definitions of "large
accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2
of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer
o
Accelerated filer
x
Non-accelerated filer
o
Smaller reporting company
o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title Of
Securities To Be Registered
Amount
To Be
Registered
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
Amount Of
Registration
Fee
Deferred Compensation Plan Obligations (1)
$33,000,000 (2)
100%
(1)
$33,000,000 (2)
$
$1,841.40
(1)           Relates to Deferred Compensation Plan
Obligations pursuant to the Force Protection, Inc. Deferred Compensation
Plan. The Deferred Compensation Plan Obligations are unsecured obligations of
the Company to pay deferred compensation in the future in accordance with the
terms of the Force Protection, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan.
(2)           The amount being registered is based
upon an estimate of the amount of compensation to be deferred by participants
in the Deferred Compensation Plan and is estimated solely for the purpose of
calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(o) and (h) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
PART I
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Force
Protection, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company") is filing this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") relating
to $33,000,000 of unfunded and unsecured obligations (the "Obligations") of the
Company issuable under the Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan").
Item 1.  Plan
Information.
*
Item 2. 
Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information. *
*
Information required by Part I to be
contained in the Section 10(a) Prospectus is omitted from this
Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "
Securities Ac
t"), and in accordance with
the Introductory Note to Part I of Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. 
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The
following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "
Commission
") pursuant to the Securities Act or the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "
Exchange Act
"), are
hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
(a)
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2008 filed on March 26, 2009;
(b)
All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a) or
15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
Registrant's annual report referred to in (a) above; and
(c)
The section entitled "Description of Registrant's Securities to be
Registered" contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A
(File No. 001-33253) filed on January 12, 2007 under Section 12(b) of
the Exchange Act, including all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of
updating such description.
In
addition, all documents filed with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities registered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all of such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Item 4. 
Description of Securities.
This Registration Statement covers $33,000,000 of
Obligations to be offered pursuant to the Plan. Under the Plan, a select group
of management or highly compensated employees, including the Company's
executive officers, as determined in its sole discretion by the Company's Board
of Directors
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or
the committee appointed by the Board of Directors, may participate in the
Plan.  The Plan is not intended to meet
the qualifications of Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (the "Code"), but is intended to constitute a plan of deferred
compensation that complies with the requirements for deferral of income
taxation under Section 409A of the Code of 1986.
The initial Plan year will begin as of November 1,
2009 and end on December 31, 2009 and subsequent Plan years will begin on January 1
and end on December 31.  During the
initial Plan year, eligible employees will be able to defer up to 85% of their November and
December salary and up to 16% of any 2009 annual bonus paid in 2010.  For subsequent Plan years, eligible employees
may defer up to 85% of their annual salary and up to 85% of any annual bonus on
a pre-tax basis.  All participant
deferrals shall be 100% vested.
In addition, the Company may elect to make matching
contribution on cash compensation that could not be recognized under the
Company's tax-qualified Section 401(k) plan due to the Code Section 401(a)(17)
compensation limit, which is $245,000 for 2009. 
The Plan matching contribution will be equal to the matching
contribution established for the Company's 401(k) plan.  For the initial Plan year, all participants
in the Plan will receive a 3% match on 2009 cash compensation above
$245,000.  For 2010, all participants in
the Plan will receive a 4% match on the 2010 cash compensation above the Code Section 401(a)(17)
compensation limit in 2010.  Under the
terms of the Plan, the Company may also provide discretionary contributions to
participants in subsequent years.
The participants will be provided with investment
options for the deferred funds as determined by the Company's Board of
Directors or Board appointed committee. 
In no event shall the deferred funds be invested in the Company's common
stock.  The Obligations are not
convertible into any other security of the Company.
Deferred funds may be distributed as more
specifically provided in the Plan, during employment, following separation of
employment, upon retirement and in the event of disability or death.  Upon separation of service with the Company
within two years following a change of control of the Company, participants
will receive vested account balances in the form of a lump-sum payment within
ninety days of termination.  The
Obligations are not subject, in any manner, to anticipation, sale, transfer,
assignment or encumbrance and shall not be assigned as security for a loan.
The Plan does not require the Company to establish
any trust, escrow account, or other mechanism to hold the participant deferrals
and Company contributions.  However, the
Company has established a grantor trust, known as a "rabbi trust," to hold
participant deferrals and Company contributions.  While participants shall have a beneficial
interest in the trust's assets, to the extent provided under the terms and
conditions of the trust agreement and the Plan only, no participant in the Plan
has any preferred claim to any assets of the trust.  The assets of the rabbi trust are available
to general creditors of the Company in the event of the Company's insolvency.
The Company may amend the Plan at any time, except
that no such amendment or termination shall adversely affect a Participant's
right to Obligations in the amount of the Participant's accounts as of the date
of such amendment or termination.  The
Company may terminate the Plan at any time and pay the participants their
vested Obligations in a single lump sum or on a schedule determined by the
Board of Directors.
The obligations of the Company under the Plan are
general unsecured obligations. 
Participants in the Plan shall have the status of general unsecured
creditors of the Company.
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The
foregoing description of the Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to
the full text of the Plan, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and is
incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5. 
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
None.
Item 6. 
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
The Registrant is
incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada. Section 78.7502 of the
Nevada Revised Statutes (the "Nevada Statute") permits a corporation to
indemnify any person in any proceeding (except an action by or in the right of
the corporation) by reason of being a director or officer of the corporation
for expenses, including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred. A corporation may indemnify any
person in any action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a
judgment in its favor by reason of being a director or officer of the
corporation for expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys'
fees actually and reasonably incurred, except that indemnification may not be
made for any matter as to which such a person has been finally adjudged by a
court to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the
corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court determines that the
person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the
court deems proper. In either case, however, to be eligible for
indemnification, the person to be indemnified must not be found to have
breached his fiduciary duties in a manner involving intentional misconduct,
fraud or a knowing violation of law, or must have acted in good faith and in a
manner which he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests
of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. Section 78.7502 of
the Nevada Statute also provides that to the extent a director or officer has
been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any such action, he
must be indemnified by the corporation against expenses, including attorneys'
fees, actually and reasonably incurred. Section 78.752 of the Nevada
Statute permits a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance or make other
financial arrangements on behalf of the corporation's directors and officers
for any liability and expenses incurred by them in such capacity, whether or
not the corporation has the authority to indemnify them against such liability
and expenses.
The Registrant's charter
provides that the Registrant shall indemnify, to the maximum extent permitted
by law, any person who is or was a director, officer, agent, fiduciary or
employee of the Registrant against any claim, liability or expenses arising
against or incurred by such person made party to a proceeding because he is or
was a director, officer, agent, fiduciary or employee of the Registrant or
because he was a director, officer, agent, fiduciary or employee of the
Registrant or because he is or was serving another entity as a director,
officer, partner, trustee, employee, fiduciary or agent at the Registrant's
request. The Registrant shall further have the authority to the maximum extent
permitted by law to purchase and maintain insurance providing such
indemnification.
The Registrant's by-laws
provide that the Registrant shall indemnify any director, officer, agent,
fiduciary or employee of the Registrant, or any person serving another entity
in such capacity at the request of the Registrant, against reasonably incurred
expenses (including any attorneys' fees), judgments, penalties, fines and
amounts paid in settlement reasonably incurred by him in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if it is determined by a majority vote of a meeting
of the board of directors at which a quorum is present (excluding directors
that are parties to the proceeding) that he conducted himself in good faith and
that he reasonably believed (i) in the case of conduct in his official
capacity with the Registrant, that his conduct was in the Registrant's best
interests, or (ii) in all other cases (except criminal cases), that his
conduct was at least not opposed to the Registrant's best interests, or (iii) in
the
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case of any criminal
proceeding, that he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was
unlawful.  No such determination by the
board of directors is required where such person was wholly successful in
defense of the action as to which he was entitled to indemnification or if
indemnification is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.  If a quorum of directors not parties to the
proceeding cannot be obtained, then the determination shall be made by a
majority vote of a committee of the board of directors consisting of two or
more directors not parties to the proceeding. 
If such a quorum of the board of directors cannot be obtained and such a
committee cannot be established, or the board of directors or committee so
directs, the determination shall be made by independent legal counsel or by a
vote of the shareholders.
Reasonable expenses,
including attorney's fees, incurred in defending an action, suit or proceeding
on behalf of an indemnified person may be paid by the Registrant in advance of
the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of a
written affirmation of the indemnified person's good faith belief that he has
met the standards of conduct prescribed in the Registrant's by-laws, a written
undertaking to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that he did
not meet the prescribed standards of conduct and a determination is made as
described in the preceding paragraph that the facts as then known would not
preclude indemnification.  Any
indemnification or advance of expenses to a director arising out of a
proceeding by or on behalf of the Registrant shall be reported in writing to
the stockholders with or before the notice of the next stockholder's meeting.
In
addition, pursuant to certain Indemnification Agreements (the "Indemnification
Agreements") between the Registrant and its directors and officers, the
Registrant agreed to indemnify such directors and officers to the fullest
extent permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada. Among other things, the
Indemnification Agreements provide indemnification procedures, advancement of
expenses during proceedings subject to indemnification, indemnification for
claims of contribution,  and mechanisms
for reviewing executive conduct in connection with a claim for indemnification.
The Registrant also
maintains a directors' and officers' insurance policy pursuant to which our
directors and officers are insured against liability for actions taken in their
capacities as directors and officers.
Item 7.  Exemption
from Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8. 
Exhibits.
The
following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement:
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
3.1
Articles
  of Incorporation of Force Protection, Inc. (incorporated by reference to
  Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
  fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 filed on September 15, 2008).
3.2
Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection, Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Registrant's Annual
  Report Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 filed
  on September 15, 2008).
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Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
3.3
Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection, Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current
  Report on Form 8-K filed November 26, 2008)
3.4
Second
  Amended and Restated By-Laws of Force Protection, Inc. (incorporated by
  referenced to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant's Current Report on
  Form 8-K filed November 26, 2008).
5.1
Opinion
  of counsel (filed herewith).
10.1
Force
  Protection, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (filed herewith).
23.1
Consent
  of Grant Thornton LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed
  herewith).
23.2
Consent
  of counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power
  of Attorney (included in signature page hereto).
Item 9. 
Undertakings
1.
Item 512(a) of Regulation S-K:
The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)           To file, during any period in which
offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement:
(i)            To include any prospectus required
by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
(ii)           To reflect in the prospectus any
facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement
(or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in
the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
the registration statement. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of
securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not
exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent
change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii)          To include any material information
with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement.
Provided, however,
that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do
not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8, and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
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paragraphs
is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) that are incorporated by reference in the
registration statement.
(2)           That, for the purpose of determining
any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(3)           To remove from registration by means
of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which
remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
2.
Item 512(b) of Regulation S-K.
The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
the Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration
statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
3.
Item 512(h) of Regulation S-K.
Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the Town of Ladson, State of South Carolina, on this 6th day of
November, 2009.
FORCE
  PROTECTION INC.
By:
/s/
  Michael Moody
Name:
  Michael Moody
Title:
  President and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)
KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
hereby constitutes and appoints Michael Moody, Charles Mathis and Lenna Ruth
Macdonald, and each of them, as such person's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact
and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person
and in such person's name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign
any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and additions to
this registration statement on Form S-8 and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact
and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes
as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or such person's substitute or
substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement
has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of the 6th
day of November, 2009.
Signature
Capacity
/S/ MICHAEL MOODY
Chief
  Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
  (principal executive officer)
Michael Moody
/S/ CHARLES MATHIS
Chief
  Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)
Charles Mathis
/S/ LTG ROGER G. THOMPSON, JR.
Director
LTG
  Roger G. Thompson, Jr. (Ret.)
/S/ JOHN S. DAY
Director
John S. Day
/S/ B. HERB ELLIS
Director
B. Herb Ellis
/S/ KENNETH A. MERLAU
Director
Kenneth A. Merlau
/S/ JOHN W. PAXTON, SR.
Director
John
  W. Paxton, Sr.
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
3.1
Articles
  of Incorporation of Force Protection, Inc. (incorporated by reference to
  Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
  fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 filed on September 15, 2008).
3.2
Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection, Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Registrant's Annual
  Report Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 filed
  on September 15, 2008).
3.3
Certificate
  of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Force Protection, Inc.
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current
  Report on Form 8-K filed November 26, 2008)
3.4
Second
  Amended and Restated By-Laws of Force Protection, Inc. (incorporated by
  referenced to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant's Current Report on
  Form 8-K filed November 26, 2008).
5.1
Opinion
  of counsel (filed herewith).
10.1
Force
  Protection, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (filed herewith).
23.1
Consent
  of Grant Thornton LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed
  herewith).
23.2
Consent
  of counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power
  of Attorney (included in signature page hereto).
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