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While I was in Korea, I went to TA-50 Alley and did what a lot of soldiers did -- get a duplicate set of field gear (later supplemented with more expensive stuff as gear changed) so that you had the stuff they issued you at CIF that you just checked every so often for cleanliness, and the real stuff you actually used and replaced as needed. That way, CIF had as little to bitch about as possible (they still found a way to reject at least one item -- you just took it back home, let it sit overnight without touching it, then brought it back to CIF and magically it was accepted).