Originally Posted by
Blue_Circle
Interesting if true.
We've just been issued with Virtus and had to attend mandatory lessons on how to put it together, adjust and use it all.
My Virtus is still in the bin bag it was issued in, awaiting my lesson on assembly and fitting (the truth is I'm never going to wear it in this post so have no desire to put it together).
Virtus was a proper measuring session on order. BALCS, ACLP, Osprey (Mk 2 & 4) and ECBA were all sausage factory issues, form a queue going through stores to try on sizes so you were happy before you went out the gate. Anyone that wanted to change sizes down the line after a test and adjust period would find an oppo to swop with or put a demand in for a different size. That's why I find it hard to believe this man suffered for so long, a basic failure of leadership to not provide the correct PPE especially post 2003 and Sgt Roberts.
Unless he didn't tell anyone? InForm/DASOR/reported sick in Th?