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  • #76
    W e use the pocket on the flacker when on cit escort,but never have i seen or heard of anyone putting a mag in their pocket or being told to do so in the 12th.As for the rdf ye should allways be issued webbing for scty duty.no excuses.
    "Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.

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    • #77
      Originally posted by Docman
      The Army doesn't really care about your "personal preference".

      Look at the new tac aide, chapter 3,section 3.3 look under the note II...
      i rest my case!
      Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

      http://www.iamawesome.com/

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      • #78
        What to carry in your smock?

        From Connect in Feb 2004, aimed at PDF Std NCOs Course

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        • #79
          just a quick list compass, pen knife , binos , 30m para chord, 2 bin liners, gloves, bush hat , first aide kit, trip wire 20m , cammo cream/mirror. tea bags/ coffee flint&steel , lighter zippo. whistle .sight adgusting key, sweets tac aide , notebook 2 biros normally only hump the gloves and bush hat only for tactics but whistle compass are on a dummy chord

          we had a lecture from the pdf once from some lads just back from e timor and one of them demonstrated what he had in his pockets , and gave us a nice list


          top pockets notebook 2 pencils,2 cinagraph pencil,whistle,silva compass,admin docs, tac aide,protractor,stabilo pens red blue,
          bottom pockets 30m twine,cammo cream mirror, pocket torch /s batteries,neck warmer,prismatic compass, insulating tape pocket binos
          "take a look to the sky right before you die, its the last time you will"

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          • #80
            Someone should've told the guy I used to see on gate duty on the canal entrance, (by the motor pool) to Cathal Brugha. He always had his pants cargo pockets crammed with Steyr mags. Granted, this was a good few years ago.

            the guy on that gate was never armed- so i doubt it was steyr mags- knowing some of hte lads who do that gate it was more than likely porno mags
            Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
            Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
            The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
            The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
            The best lack all conviction, while the worst
            Are full of passionate intensity.

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            • #81
              Yep, he was too !!! But I am going back quite a few years here, perhaps before your own Army time. At least 12 or 13 years ago, probably even longer, still olive green uniforms, I think (fuzzy mind these days, me).

              I remember distinctly the guy having a steyr though. what was unusual that these were the first times I ever saw that gate open and in use.

              Later.
              No-one, I think, is in my tree...

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              • #82
                What do you carry on your webbing?

                getting together my webbing kit at the moment... after talking to Bam Bam about this subject last week, and also after having seen the An Cosantoir poster on same got me thinking...what do you carry on your webbing?

                "Live from your backpack, fight from your webbing, survive from your jacket" is a quote ive heard (or similar)
                "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here...this is the War Room!"

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                • #83
                  There is a huge thread about this from a few months ago. Personally I dont agree with the saying as your jacket will come on and off with the weather where as no matter what your doing your webbing should never come off.

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                  • #84
                    Great to hear the combat veterans giving their opinion....


                    Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by Muzzle
                      There is a huge thread about this from a few months ago. Personally I dont agree with the saying as your jacket will come on and off with the weather where as no matter what your doing your webbing should never come off.

                      i tried the much vaunted search function, perhaps i didnt use the right search terms...

                      but thats a great reply to my question anyway
                      "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here...this is the War Room!"

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by stameen soldier
                        i tried the much vaunted search function, perhaps i didnt use the right search terms...

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                        • #87
                          Why doesn't anyone chech with their units first.
                          There is a detailed admin instruction available, if your unit are footdragging shooting competition obsessives then get it from Connect.
                          Stop getting the opinions of people who for all you know could be little old ladies who've never worn a shade of green and get the official information that is there for you to use.
                          "It is a general popular error to imagine that loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it's welfare" Edmund Burke

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                          • #88
                            For once I agree with CQ.


                            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                            • #89

                              Thats for smock not web
                              It is only by contemplation of the incompetent that we can appreciate the difficulties and accomplishments of the competent.

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                              • #90
                                From memmory it covers both or if it dosn't it links to stuff that does. Should also list which manuals to consult. Its a good starting point either way but like most threads around here it dosnt come to any usefull conclusions.

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