daftandbarmy
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ballz said:I'll give him that frag/plates/etc didn't slow him down, he was a pretty athletic guy and probably more tough than brain. He was only there for the first day and then legitimately had to fly out the next morning with the CSM for some Bde thing. It was all section training so none of the WOs and up were doing tasks, just managing the exercise and running the training. Myself and the Coy 2IC were running the dry exercise / live-fire range which were happening concurrently after that, but we weren't going to go back on what he directed just because he was no longer around.... I was, and still am, just pissed with anybody that thinks that "Dress" is in your orders to reiterate to you than you are wearing the same thing you always do no matter how stupid, as opposed to being derived from any actual thought towards the mission ahead.
Typical :
Not that it is a direct comparison but, in NI, we wore frag vests in urban areas and ditched them in the countryside. In urban areas, because we were so close to various kinds of support, we could carry minimal other gear/ ammo. This meant we were fast and nimble enough to chase miscreants down and arrest them in the cities, even while wearing body armour, and we had far more endurance in the countryside because we could swap armour for food and ammo.