Canadian loadout *56K beware*

[White_knight]

wow dude. talk about frustration

[Lerch]

I know how you feel, when I was at the Mega I went ahead and bought the ballistics they had at the optometrist...needless to say they broke my last week out in Farnham. I tried getting the inserts for my Sawfly's when I got to Gagetown, no luck...I was gonna be gone before I could get them. So now I'm just taking my ESS Landops with me to use in the meantime cuz I'm gonna try again when I get back to Gagetown next month.

My Sawfly's have been sitting ignored in my foot locker for awhile now...

[bean]

They told me because I was a reservist I was not entitled to the inserts. I said even though I am here on a 4 month contract with a reg force school and will be for the rest of my time in. I continue to trust my vision to my glasses or if its really sketchy I bring my bolle x800's out.

[Point_Man]

A picture of myself and my RG31 vehicle crew. I'm second from the right. My buddies on the left are the gunner and driver respectively so their kit is in the truck and they often aren't wearing it when we're inside. The crew commander is in the centre and normally he doesn't have his kit on either. Crew commander is wearing a tan HSGI Weesatch and I'm sporting a tactical tailor plate carrier with side upgrades. Also an issued vest in there as well. Gloves vary from 5.11, Hatch, and Blackhawk furies depending on what you like. I think most of the guys found that aviator gloves and even the 5.11's fell apart pretty quickly.

Guy on the far right and myself are wearing TCCC leg bags. Gunner has tan ESS profile nvg goggles incase he has to go manual for whatever reason. Most of the kit we wear is not really a standard but just specific to that person and their job. We were lucky with the amount of flexibility we had though...the previous tour that we relieved was all issued all the time. Even the slings vary from issued, to a Vickers blue force, to my own homemade one.

[MrEvolution]

I dont get invited to basement cadpat photoshoots

[Point_Man]

Originally Posted by -MikeL-

Point Man, you guys NSE Convoy Escort?

Yuppers. Well I was anyway. We shared the task with another Force Protection platoon. But while we rotated to ECP 3 we handed over the gate to the Slovaks. Since there was no need for two FP platoons doing convoy escort I got sent to the OMLT. Being part of the NSE kinda sucked because no one really knew what we needed as far as equipment goes. But at least for the most part they left us alone and let us do our job.

[Point_Man]

Originally Posted by -MikeL-

Good stuff; what you doing in the OMLT? SECFOR stuff or Mentoring?

I'am surprised at the huge difference between you guys being allowed to wear all kinda of non-issue stuff while the 1-08 FP guys weren't allowed a thing of non-issue kit.. well except for holsters halfway through the tour.

Holsters were never really a problem for us, and we weren't really sure about individual rigs. Some of my buddies are doing SECFOR. I was lucky enough to get into a mentoring team for one of the Kandaks. I'm on HLTA right now but heading back in the new year.

[White_knight]

so i was surfing across the CF image gallery and came across this interesting photo.



any one know why hes wearing half arid CAD with and m4 even tho his patchs say hes Australian?

[Retro]

From what i know canada doesnt have EDDs, so hes probly attached to the Canadians for the use of the explosive detecting dog. Just speculation on my part though.

[Lerch]

That would be it. He's just a dog handler from Oz that has been attached to the Canucks

[rideout]

Originally Posted by White_knight

so i was surfing across the CF image gallery and came across this interesting photo.



any one know why hes wearing half arid CAD with and m4 even tho his patchs say hes Australian?

maby hes having an identity crisis lol.

[RecceGod]

Originally Posted by Lerch

That would be it. He's just a dog handler from Oz that has been attached to the Canucks

I second that... We had dog handlers from many other nations working with us.

Notice the Tac gear also isn't CF issue and not likely to be something a canuck would buy if deployed. Helmet isn't the CF issue and he ain't wearing the CF frag vest either...

[RecceGod]

Originally Posted by Point_Man

Yuppers. Well I was anyway. We shared the task with another Force Protection platoon. But while we rotated to ECP 3 we handed over the gate to the Slovaks. Since there was no need for two FP platoons doing convoy escort I got sent to the OMLT. Being part of the NSE kinda sucked because no one really knew what we needed as far as equipment goes. But at least for the most part they left us alone and let us do our job.

Did you rotate in in Jan 08? If so you replaced my platoon at ECP 3...

[mctaz]

Hì dear,
i need to know if i have put in garbage 99% of my collection for real think or for someone (in CF) are paranoid........

about this situation I want ask to all user why all my photos (some finds in international military photos forums are use on your GI military forum ........ in this i'm lair, i'm terrorist, i'm the best enemy for your army)...... now i see more photos and noone said nothing about CF force cadpat gloves or about people that use CF uniform or CF vest........

McTAZ

[warbird]

What? I know your not English, but I don't get it