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What does the Canadian army sleepin in on patrols?
Let‘s say in the spring, summer or fall

Half-shelters?
Bivvy bags?

Can anyone recommend a good bivvy bag, or a place to buy military half-shelters (or whatever shelter you use)?

Thanks in advance
 
We sleep in a sleeping bag, the sleeping bag goes into the bivvy bag.

If its warm out, i prefer to sleep in my poncho liner(ranger blanket).


The only place I think you‘d be able to buy this stuff would be a surplus store, I haven‘t seen a surplus store that sells bivvy bags though.
 
In the reserve at least, for spring-summer-fall conditions, we can set up the standard ‘hooch‘ with two ground sheets zipped together bungee-corded between 2 trees to form a tent with no floor... Of course, when there is less time (i.e. recce) I have just slept in my sleeping bag on the ground :warstory: .

We are issued gor-tex bivy bags to be slightly warmer though.

edit - oh yeah, ranger (thermal) blanket is good in warmer weather as DNA mentioned.
 
You can buy Bivvy bags at a place called Mountain Equip Co-Op ( www.mec.ca ) if you have a MEC in your city definety check it out.
They‘re not the exact same ones we use but I believe they‘re made out of Gor-tex, and they‘re all used for the same purpose so other then color they‘ll be roughly the same.
They‘re expensive though, as everything made of gor-tex is.
 
or just become really good friends with a mech tech and get him to make you a hootch lol (i have one of my own made by a mech tech and **** i had to leave the ‘door‘ type thing open and have the screen up to ventilate because it got really hot in there)
 
Patty,

You must mean a Mat Tech (Materials Technician)??
 
i prefer a motel or the shacks but there are time you have to just crash where you can if your lucky . usually if its a short stop its a biv bag ,sleeping bag longer halts its under a shelter half some times its in a trench
 
Brin, lol yea i forgot the short term for it my bad!
 
I like to cover myself with a ranger blanket inside the sleeping bag. Makes for extra warmth.
 
Most of my time was in tanks- and in the summer we just laid on the back deck and went to sleep- if we had the time, we‘d even take off our boots.

If it was raining, we‘d throw a piece of canvas over the gun....or just get wet.

Winter, we‘d still sleep on the back deck- but use the sleeping bag.

Patrols- never took a bag.

FWIW- I always took my parka- winter or summer- even during the summer the nights get cold, particularly if you haven‘t been sleeping more than 2 hours a night for the past few weeks- but then I had a tank to carry the weight.

The Air Force is much more reasonable- if there aren‘t any good motels, then we don‘t go :)

Ahhh, how far we‘ve come.

Cheers-Garry
 
In the brief time I‘ve been in, I‘ve slept in a wide variety of places...

Armoury classroom -- That was warm, but crappy as it was full of burping, farting, stinking bodies and the steam radiator heating made all sorts of noise all night.

Borden bunkers -- That was ok, the rooms were smaller, so you could reasonably kick out the idiots or at least threaten them with horrible harm if they kept you awake. QUite cosy.

Meaford shacks -- A pain to keep tidy "to the standard" but otherwise very comfy.

Mod tents (winter) -- Garbage. Why bother? They ain‘t warm.

Mod tents (summer) -- God, don‘t remind me!! Aaagh! Easier to keep tidy than the shacks at least.

Arctic tent -- Warm, but crowded. Overall not a bad place to be in the field.

Hooch -- I made an awesome hooch on the milcon this year, and with only one half-shelter. That, and the air mattress, and the sleeping bag kept me very comfy for the whole week. On the last night, I had already taken down the hooch, so I slept in just the sleeping bag and air mattress with a bug bar over top.

Hooch, Version 2 -- The night we went and did the live fire, we set up in the woods near DZ Anzio at Pet (milcon still). It rained, the only time all week, and me and my fire team partner had set up our hooch in the dark with no clue how the thing looked. Needless to say, we almost floated away, we got so wet. Last time I try a two man hooch.

Trench -- I had a trench to sleep in several times, sans sleeping kit. This was horribly uncomfortable. I would rather stab myself in the eyes with sticks all night.
 
these ranger blanket poncho liners, what exactly are they?
Can they be worn as a poncho or is it just a blanket?
Are they waterproof? Can it serve as a shelter or is it more of a warmth providing blanket?

Canadian Peacekeeper has one, anyone know if it is any good?

Thanks
 
If "Peacekeeper" has it then it‘s probably the American ranger blanket. We (the CdnForces) have on that is O.D. green ( unless they‘ve got a cadpat version now.)but is thicker and warmer. Throw up the link to peacekeeper if they have one and we‘ll all take a look.

Slim
P.S. I remember Meaford in the days before the RCR took over...Deffinitely more fun.
 
here‘s the URL to the Canadian Peacekeeper poncho liner
http://www.wheelersonline.com/detail.asp?product_id=1015
 
Poncho liners..."We (the CdnForces) have on that is O.D. green ( unless they‘ve got a cadpat version now.)but is thicker and warmer." ...he he, aren‘t you funny.

The military has been issuing the standard woodland camo American issued poncho liner for a few yrs now, since the horse blanket version was sooo popular with everyone.

They probably puchased a couple thousand new ones from some surplus store in Toronto for us.
 
Personaly I just prefer to my bivi bag in the field, and whatever sleeping gear that is required for the season. Ranger blanket, fleece liner, 1 of those crazy sleeping bags. I don‘t think I‘ve ever used both, not even in the winter. Now I‘ve got a Softie Hawk #9 and a Merlin #3 which will make sleepy time much better, and easier to pack!

Kick *** sleeping bags!
 
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