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Let me guess…this was said to you on your first unit ex after QL2 and you packed only issued kit as per the QL2 FTX…?
(A not-so-crusty sergeant may have said that to me after seeing my lack of snivel kit.)
Make the rain jacket waterproof?
- Thread starter armymen
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(A not-so-crusty sergeant may have said that to me after seeing my lack of snivel kit.)
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It's a lot easier to use your gear when the gear works.
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And if the gear doesn't work, you take it to stores and exchange it
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Hence the young fella asking how to fix it. And the advice to spray it or exchange it, vs suffer.
KevinB
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Made in Canada.The Canadian-fabricated stuff, or the newer stuff from China?
I used have have friends there
OldSolduer
Army.ca Relic
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Not only that one can submit a UCR.
I submitted one about the shitty air windshield wipers the MLVW was equipped with.
Haggis
Army.ca Fixture
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While driving through tank ruts at speed and holding your scalding hot coffee cup in your crotch. Multitasking at it's finest.
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Don’t buy a stealth suit. Go on Outdoor Research, get their 50 percent off pro deal with your military ID and buy a “crocodile brown” foray or helium. The stealth suit is super dated, fragile, and over priced.
OldSolduer
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Next thing you’ll be asking if marchin up and down the square isn’t good enough for me…
KevinB
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Even then it was a niche item, as the outerwear got soaked.
I still have my top - the bottoms long since where ruined from crawling around on stuff, but it sit in one of my many Pelican boxes of old and outdated Mil kit.
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In my case it was "Uncle " Eddie Witt.When I say “embrace the suck” I mean without being uncomfortable once in a while forward progression is difficult. We all were uncomfortable at one point or another BUT it taught us valuable lessons.
Ok which old RSM? I know a few.
OldSolduer
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Aren’t you lucky. Actually he was real old school 1VP. In the 70s that unit had a bit of a “foreign legion” amongst the some of the WOs - Ed included
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Forgot to add manning at least one radio net since they forgot to give you a codriver...and I guess I'll add navigate as well.
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Starts like a condom comerical
CountDC
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Nope, that's a given.
You mean that useless pte that was at his best when sleeping so he didn't annoy you with his nonsensical ramblings?
OldSolduer
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Scuse me I was that pte at one time
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No, I literally mean no physical human/humanoid beside me in the cab...a more often than not thing for me. Even worse when I had a certain flight WO when attached to 408 THS that thought it was normal for an ambulance to have nobody other than the medic as the driver/codriver/navigator/signaller AND medical attendant. Was not fun as they'd stick the amb as lead vehicle in the trail packet on tactical and admin road moves, expecting me to figure out the grid reference I was at/going to via the Graham Greene method of "..the wind told me..." in the pre-GPS days of using actual maps and ded reckoning.
