Actually I meant on parade i.e. when I am in the center.
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What do you carry on your webbing/smock?
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There was an excellent foldout in Connect a few months ago, based on what is carried, where & why for the Std NCOs Cse, run by the NCO Training Wing.
But personally, on tactics I carry as little as I can in my smock, eg whistle, pen knife, tac aide, sweets etc. The reason being it makes it uncomfortable when you get down, more difficult to run, & harder to get things out. The flaps on the pockets, while making sure you don't lose anything, also make it very difficult to take things out quickly (especially a tac aide).
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Goldie
"The smock has massive pockets for a reason. What the FU&$ are you doing with a mobile on tactics?"
Apparrantly you are unfamiliar with the lesser known code phrase invented by CIS personnell "use other means"= take out your mobile phone and ring the section commander because this radio is screwed.
Bitching about SINCGARS: The SINCGARS cost about €10k. Handsets, without which the sets are useless, cost about €100. Guess what the DF didn't buy for the new radios? Or at least, that used to be the state of play.Take these men and women for your example.
Like them, remember that posterity can only
be for the free; that freedom is the sure
possession of those who have the
courage to defend it.
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Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
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Even the British Army resorted to individual troops using their personal mobile phones in the Balkans because the Clansman?(i think) radios werent working.Come to think of it how come the coverage there was good and I have to look like an idiot waving my phone around trying to get a signal with my t610 in parts of Belfast???Si vis pacem para bellum
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smock
ever heard the saying
LIVE, FIGHT,SURVIVE...
live from your bergin, fight from your cefo, survive (cant spell) from your smock....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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back to the pt
For Tactics:Whistle, Lighter, Penknife and compas.
Tie shoelace to each individual item and attach to the little ring at the top of your pockets (1 item per hole please).
Result:no loss of eqiup,know exactly where everything is and its easier to take out.
No need to thank me....... I already know.:D
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and you know with your vast experience?
and what if your hungry?
and does a bear sh1t in the woods?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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TM 201 sets out what you should have in your smock, check the appendices
Failing that download the Connect poster on Admin in the Field <b>here</b>SALUTE:- Formal if infrequently observed wave at an officer usually followed by "hows it going sir ?"
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true, it does, but as GF said if you've got a second smock for those hot summer nights ...
TM201 is getting on a bit now but that appendix is damn useful .
yer KFS can go in a pocket or hang a spoon round your neck
My leatherman normally goes in the compass pocket , tac aide on the inside zip
kfs and maglite , ziplocked lighter and fags in the pockets, peltor and small mapcase w/compass tied on inside in left pocket, field dressing in field dressing pocket
I find I can't move fast with anything more than the map in the trous
the rest is a good balance between what's needed and wanted."Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "
"No, they're trying to fly the tank"
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