Originally posted by Darksaga
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Soldier 2010
Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
-
Originally posted by paul View PostButtons gone off their trousers pockets and replaced by it too, doesn't make alot of sense:confused:But there's no danger
It's a professional career
Though it could be arranged
With just a word in Mr. Churchill's ear
If you're out of luck you're out of work
We could send you to johannesburg.
(Elvis Costello, Olivers Army)
Comment
-
-
These uniform improvements seem reasonable enough. Our new unitofrms have a zipper instead of buttons on the shirt/jacket and velcro on the pockets. The zip is a let more comfortable under body armour than buttons, the buttons chafe and cause "hot spots" Otherwise the new US uniform is actually the most useless uni in the world unless you are hiding on granny's couch or in pea gravel.
We went to driflo t-shirts, only to discover they become "melt to fit" in fire/explosion/IED, hence the nomex issue shirt for overseas. Stupid really, firefighters are not allowed to wear driflo, has to be cotton or nomex....saw that one coming when we got the new kit.
Can't speak to the rest of the changes as I don't wear the Irish uniform.
But, in the spirit of wasting money, it has recently come to light that the tests for our new "ACU" were "fudged" and the current pattern came in 7th in testing but was strangely adopted. Only recently after some prodding from Congress and a newspaper, did the Army reluctantly agree they may have got it wrong and are scrambling to sort out new uniforms and will probably go back to a green type DPM for woodland and brown type DPM for the desert. After all, what's $5 billion of taxpayer money..........sigh....A
Comment
-
Originally posted by turbocalves View PostA question,
Does anybody know what stock the DF has of current issue kit, or how new kit is to be rolled out???.
Doe we know if the Fleece/Norwegian is available to RDF. I'm asking this as it is coming into winter and i have a Pl who have no Fleeces/Norgie/ jumpers, and parading outdoors the troops are suffering.
Print that off and bring it for a "chat" with your Q.
If he won't give you the gear, bring said list ot your coy comdr and point out that it is his responsibility to ensure the well being of his troops and if they get ill from being ordered to stand out in the cold without being issued cold weather gear it will be his head on the block.
Comment
-
Originally posted by piper_69 View PostHave a look at this:
Print that off and bring it for a "chat" with your Q.
If he won't give you the gear, bring said list ot your coy comdr and point out that it is his responsibility to ensure the well being of his troops and if they get ill from being ordered to stand out in the cold without being issued cold weather gear it will be his head on the block."Attack your attic with a Steyr....as seen on the Late Late Show..."
Comment
-
Concussion
There is a phrase here " all the gear , no idea " we apply to certain types who like to wear all the kit but are useless when it comes to gettign hands on.......Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier - Samuel Johnson
Comment
-
Originally posted by irishrgr View PostThese uniform improvements seem reasonable enough. Our new unitofrms have a zipper instead of buttons on the shirt/jacket and velcro on the pockets. The zip is a let more comfortable under body armour than buttons, the buttons chafe and cause "hot spots"
Pockets they have suggested, from what I understand.
Last edited by paul; 23 October 2009, 14:52.Don't stand there GAWPING, like you've never seen the hand of God BEFORE!!
Comment
-
Originally posted by piper_69 View PostHave a look at this:
Print that off and bring it for a "chat" with your Q.
If he won't give you the gear, bring said list ot your coy comdr and point out that it is his responsibility to ensure the well being of his troops and if they get ill from being ordered to stand out in the cold without being issued cold weather gear it will be his head on the block.
But then again we had no alternative but to tough it out.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Connaught Stranger View Postwe had to make do with ponchos, and in the winter ponchos with an army blanket worn as a poncho linerThe worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
(George Bernard Shaw, Playwright, 1856 - 1950)
Comment
-
Originally posted by knocker View PostConcussion
There is a phrase here " all the gear , no idea " we apply to certain types who like to wear all the kit but are useless when it comes to gettign hands on.......
Used to describe someone that looks good but when it comes down to it, is **** all use.
Comment
Comment