ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Gearspotter** · 18-04-2011, 19:03

Originally Posted by brighton hippy

think that was the orginal Goretex sock liner pretty fucking useless unless as a slipper or a boot liner if boot totally soaked and your static
the new Goretex sock is more sock like and useful

The NEW new Goretex sock (even newer than the one B-H mentions) is even more sock-like, and lined with Marino wool. In fact, its so sock-like it's almost like a sock! And possibly quite useful. Coming soon to a Black Bag near you.

**Victorian_Major** · 18-04-2011, 19:18

Originally Posted by cloudbuster

No, because once you'd hacked at it with your dinghy-knife (removed hood, braces, lower-leg pockets, trouser lining, kneeboard window) you had a nearly-servicable item of apparrel.

I modified mine on exercise by sewing a triangle of very loud, purple spotty handkerchief into each leg. Invisible whilst zipped up, but having signed back down and made my way back to aircrew Glastonbury it was hey presto! to the disco wear.

Yes, we were very, very bored. It was not a first to the FEBA sort of exercise...

**thecoops** · 18-04-2011, 19:27

Originally Posted by brighton hippy

think that was the orginal Goretex sock liner pretty fucking useless unless as a slipper or a boot liner if boot totally soaked and your static
the new Goretex sock is more sock like and useful

You see I like the old boot liner because its a boot liner

**cloudbuster** · 18-04-2011, 19:28

Originally Posted by Victorian Major

I modified mine on exercise by sewing a triangle of very loud, purple spotty handkerchief into each leg. Invisible whilst zipped up, but having signed back down and made my way back to aircrew Glastonbury it was hey presto! to the disco wear.

Good use of colour.

**thecoops** · 18-04-2011, 19:29

Your dads condom

**therealbigdizzle** · 19-04-2011, 12:15

Originally Posted by walt_of_the_walts

Were you on the shore? GSA would have got you much further over water.

the lack of ground in open water renders the ground spike antenna relatively fucking useless.

**ugly** · 19-04-2011, 14:06

Has to be compo Rolos

**young_lofty** · 19-04-2011, 14:09

Has anyone ever used the canvas bucket from an AFV for anything other than keeping padlocks in on a CES check?

**Stonker** · 19-04-2011, 14:15

The pressure cooker in my pulk in Norway.

Very valuable if you are climbing up very, very high mountains, where low pressure reduces the boiling point of water to the point where you can no longer brew tea.

That wasn't us. So it was just a piece of scrap metal dragged pointlessly behind you, in a pulk that nobody ever really mastered pulling. What a waste of sodding effort,

**Alec_Lomas** · 19-04-2011, 14:32

Originally Posted by Stonker

in a pulk that nobody ever really mastered pulling. What a waste of sodding effort,

That item was placed in the hands of the sky-diving members of the military fraternity. It took a few of these items to arrive in the snow at a very high rate of knots ( to the QM's delight) before one clever type decided to wrap the pulk contents in a canvas body bag, thus preventing the stabilising drogue parachute on a 15' line from wrapping around the protruding ski tips.