Fiddle's Green

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

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.

*laughs* I remember that. They still thought that when we went back over this last time. I recall talking to an IP in Fallujah, who was wondering if he should be glad we didn't send the Russian killers down this time, or insulted that we didn't feel the need to send our best troops.

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

*laughs* I remember that. They still thought that when we went back over this last time. I recall talking to an IP in Fallujah, who was wondering if he should be glad we didn't send the Russian killers down this time, or insulted that we didn't feel the need to send our best troops.

LOL... There are times when PSYOP did too good of job. Just think if the 3rd Mechanized and the Marine units in the initial invasion would of been in their woodland cammies instead of the desert cammies...lol

[Abbott Shaull]

No it just a testament to an Army that was geared to fight a war in Europe. Every where else is secondary option that they hope they had time to build up for.