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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
You know very few units ever had their 'Full Load Out' even when they could claim this it was general short. Unless you were in ACR in Germany or in Korea that is.
Yeah one thing that I always wonder when I was in was about the body armor. I had play twilight 2000 before going in, and the armor I ever seen while in was the helmet. So did they replace the 'Fritz' helmet with improve version? Yeah I always wonder where the body armor was.
What made me shake my head during Operation Desert Storm/Shield was that video of troops in the US 1st Mechanized Division that had been deployed late to the Middle East. They were wearing vest that had regular green camo cover. Even many would still be in the old woodland uniforms. Which proves they never really had enough of the Desert cammys on hand for large scale operations. Granted at the time who would of thought of having the units from the III Corps and Germany being sent to Middle East or for that matter anywhere but Germany. It one of the things especially the Army, where they have mind set that only certain units would ever be sent to this place or that place. When the last 20 years have shown once the units that are suppose to head there are already committed, you should have plans and option to move other units as needed.
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The ole fritz was replaced with one with improved webbing suspension...then updated with padding. The new advanced combat helmet has a different mix of plastic and kevlar, the improved suspension and padding and adds the bolt on plate to attach a NVD.
As for the VII Corps and its use of woodland BDUs in Desert Storm...it worked out in the end, the PSYOP people were dropping leaflets telling the Iraqis that the Allies had even pulled the troops from Germany to fight them, you know, the ones that had spent 20+ years training to kill Russians! And the Iraqis could tell these Soviet-killers apart becuase they would wear green and brown camouflage. It always comes down to the delivery, doesn't it?
And it was also a sad testiment that the Army was simply not equipped to conduct large scale desert operations.