RE: Berets and other head varients.

Wearing NBC? Getting gassed is MUCH MUCH worse than any discomfort a
helmet causes!!

And Pfc Hoskins sounds as if the organisation he belongs to is only
marginally better off than the Indog Militia! And what about the lack of
Battler discipline? Moving around to remove a helmet so he can get
comfortable in an ambush site? Poor preparation of his ambush site, poor
individual discipline, poor platoon discipline, lousy
resupply...........a helmet is the last thing these guys have got to be
worried about!

Owen Glover
IT Services

> ----------
> From: 	Sutherland[SMTP:charles@nfinity.com]
> Reply To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Sent: 	Wednesday, 13 August 1997 13:03
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: Berets and other head varients.
> 
> 
> >Pfc. Hoskins crouched silently in the bush, sweating in the
> overweight
> >laughably named 'cool' suit. The freezon-12 can had run out at least
> two
> >weeks ago, along with the batteries for the chil-pak on his
> newfangled
> >MPPG, forcing him to fire it in semi-auto mode only. He groaned as he
> >carefully removed the newlar "squat-pot" off his head and used the
> high
> >tech helmet for what it did best, provide a stable seat during the
> long
> >ambushes in the bush. At least the Indig militia had those old steel
> >pots that could hold water for shaving or a quick cat-cat bath in the
> >field. Hell, the Ell-tee had traded his cool-suit to a gadget-hungry
> >Indie Captain for a set of the local's cammies and a bottle of
> coconanna
> >hooch weeks ago. Maybe some of the new lightweight battle dress would
> >>come through on the next shuttle...... Maybe....
> 
> Amen brother.  Ever try wearing the NBC suits? They suck.  Almost
> better
> gettin gased than wearing that thing for a day or two.
> 
>								That
> Chuk Guy
>