If you want to learn how to configure your gear properly you need to watch SF soldiers that have "been there, done that" so to speak. I have helped cut wounded soldiers out of some seriously convoluted gear configurations. You find one thing in common at the bottom of those vest/jacket set ups with everything available from Blackhawk, Battlelab, TAD Gear, etc. etc. clipped to them, and that is usually a scared youngster who is now bleeding profusely and wondering what just happened.
Sorry guys, didn't mean to hijack the thread, the gear thing is a sore subject with me.
I agree...most of these guys are from our elite regiments ( not S/F ) although they are young and fresh from passing out...but having done their selection cadre where they get bollocked for not putting the plates in...incase they find it too easy...you now have to convince them that "less" is sometimes "more" when it comes to "effectiveness"...old boys like me who still use belt webbing seem old hat to some...but as I tell them...at least we got to be "old"...and no-one asked my opinion when they designed a "michelin man" set of equipment...I keep saying it is better to be unobserved than try to make yourself bullet and shrapnel proof...it's just an illusion. Anyway...so far they all listen and learn...but the flak I get from above...sh!t...it's me that needs the jacket!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
