Hello... where can I find some decent armor? I had the Leather Armor, Reinforced, but that died and it costs 1800 to repair. I also have the Legion and NCR armors, but I don't want to constantly wear those. Any standard Light or Medium armor I can find pretty easily? I'm a level 17. Thanks.

You should be able to find various combat armors all over the place. At the gun runners I've seen mark 1 and mark 2 reinforced and not.

Go kill some NPC's with weapons.
Take the weapons.
Sell the weapons.
Repair your armor.
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Profit!

If you're a decent gambler you should try and go on a luck streak in Gomorrah, I think it was. I got a very nice set of Combat Armor, Reinforced.

Yeah also go get the DR implant. It's expensive but with that and my mk2 combat armor I have higher Damage Resist than wearing power armor. Once I get remnant armor I'll be the most heavily fortified thing outside of Nellis Air Force Base!