Re: Headgear

The Boys Up North did good.  Much to be said both approaches, different
horses for diferent courses.  Now if they can convince the locals to
finger the people (term used loosely) who set this...

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 03:46:17 -0500 Adrian Johnson
<adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca> writes:
>
>Hi folks,
>
>In relation to the "boonie hats vs. helmets" discussion, I'm including 
>a
>link here that probably won't work...
>
>http://www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca/scripts/PortWeb.dll?query&field1=K
eywor
>ds&op1=contains&join1=and&field2=Keywords&op2=contains&value2=athena&jo
in2=a
>nd&field3=Description&op3=contains&join3=and&field4=Filename&op4=contai
ns&jo
>in4=and&field5=Description&op5=contains&join5=and&field6=IPTC_City&op6=
conta
>ins&join6=and&field7=IPTC_DateCreated&op7=on+or+after&jon7=and&field8=I
PTC_D
>ateCreated&op8=on+or+before&sorton=IPTC_DateCreated&ascending=0&catalog
=comb
>at&template=searchResults_e&Submit=Search&offset=96
>
>This is a photo album on the Canadian Forces website, with pics of the
>current operations in Kabul (and incidentally there are a bunch of
>interesting photos of all kinds of stuff throughout that site).
>
>What struck me about this particular page was the Canadian soldiers on
>patrol in boonie hats.  The page I'm trying to link here is number 9 
>of
>lots.	Page 5 has some pics of Cdn troops in our new CADPAT arid-area 
>camo
>uniforms that is darned effective.
>
>Canadian troops often try to patrol with "less offensive" looking 
>attitude
>(hence boonie hats) though they're fully tactical and have helmets if
>needed.  We lost two guys recently because their vehicle was destroyed 
>by a
>big-ass mine, and that causes a ruckus in the media here about their 
>light
>vehicles being insufficiently protected, etc.	What didn't get much 
>airtime
>was the fact that based on the size of the explosion, they probably 
>would
>have died if riding in a tank let alone a jeep, and several army-types 
>said
>they preferred the light vehicles because it enabled them to interact 
>with
>the local populace much easier.  This must have paid off because a few 
>days
>ago locals reported to the Canadian troops that someone had hidden 
>rockets
>in an abandoned building next to the Cdn base.  The Cdn's investigated 
>and
>discovered unguided rockets set to fire on the base with a remote 
>timer or
>something equiv., and disarmed them.  
>
>-Adrian
>
>
>
>***************************************
>
>Adrian Johnson
>adrian@stargrunt.ca
>http://www.stargrunt.ca
>
>***************************************
>
>

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