Old(er) Ranger Gear

[Buns175]

Is that the LCE you were issued Zonk?

Affirm, with 550 cord mods and minus 2 ammo pouches, first aid pouch, a canteen and right angle flashlight and other stuff.....

So you're saying you left without turning in issued equipment? That'll be one statement of charges for you and we'll just go with today's prices for that too.

Yeah, with the 6 million pouches we get now, I had to sell my car, get a second mortgage, and sell a baby (not mine), and I'm pretty sure I STILL owe.

[Ranger Ron]

I see you didn't have a 2 qt canteen (pillow).

[dbmtrman]

Your missing a canteen.

My vest has double that shit on it now. But I always carry way to much shit.

We weren't allowed to drink back then. Carrying to much water takes all the fun out of road marches. Everyone carried IV's, and if you had a heat casualty guys were falling over each other to get to the guy, so you could stick him. I had a guy in my squad that went tits up after a 10 mile perimeter road march. When we got back into the barracks I came into his room and 3 guys from the squad had all stuck him.lol

[dbmtrman]

I have an old 50 cal ammo can out in my garrage, and it has tent pegs, elephant rubbers, still wrapped in paper (Those are waterproof bags for you new guys), bug juice, circa 1974, heat tabs and one of those straps that you wrapped around your ruck, to hold your 2 qt. on. Forget what it was called. Was thinking about donating it all to the Smithsonian.

[Ranger Ron]

Most of it we couldn't turn in because we had modified it by removing buckles, burning tie down holes etc. We would just buy new stuff and turn it in instead.

Yeah I got that. We did the same thing when we wore LCE's, yes old fuckers you arent the only ones to have ever humped a ruck or wore LCE's, or actually slept in a patrol base that was in the shape of a triangle with the weapons squad at the apexes. I actually bought an entire set of TA-50 to turn in to CIF.
Nice kit Zonk.

Amazing there was anything left for you youngins to use. I saw many a duce and a half load of brand new, never used butt packs thrown away and burned in Vietnam.

[Steadfast]

Looks like you have the new ammo pouches and canteen cover. I'm jealous. I also totally agree with Jim's remarks.

Me, I'm surprised you only had two ammo pouches. I carried 4.

[RRDTm3]

I actually bought an entire set of TA-50 to turn in to CIF.
Nice kit Zonk.

STFU!!!!!!!!

you guys should have seen the shit he didn't have to turn in, motherfuck, Regiment has came so far with their kit, unfuckenbelievable. when we read books dreaming of being cool Rangers, . fucking lived it and kept the shit he did it with, DICK!

[dbmtrman]

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Remember this pic Norm?

[dbmtrman]

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I always liked the birth control glasses.

[RGR Mac]

Remember this pic Norm?

some good looking s.o.b.'s right there!

Cherries..Yakama, that pictures at the range were the kid from weapons platoon cleared his sixteen through his jungle boot.
Anybody want a 26 year old pen gun flare, flares included..?
Nothing like the corn field PB in Hondo.
I kept more shit thinking, "someday I'm going to need this", some of it I did get some use out of when I went in the Guard 11 years later.