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Old 18th Jan 2015, 10:33
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Hangarshuffle
 
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Someone on another forum had posted that uniformed armed people the world over are increasingly beginning to look the same = this uniform could be tweaked to look like until recently the USN uniform (submariners?), Chinese navy, latest British police dressed for "anti terror", US SWAT team and so on. And that may be on to a valid point.


I think this stuff is just about probably an improvement on the uniform from the past in a practical sense..
In my time I would have liked to have seen:
A slip on, heavy duty boot with thick sole and steel cap. Possibly like a rigger boot.
A proper Winter coat with a big hood, made to keep you warm instead of the crap thin plastic anoraks we had.
A thicker warmer pullover.
A strong practical smock.
A fleece. Some long sleeved tops, casual (bit like a noggy top of old).
Proper blue strong combat trousers with bigger deeper securable thigh pockets for keeping anything from the duty SPO keys to an SA80 magazine to a small radio.
Think they should have brought out a suitable soft cap rather than a baseball cap.
All this based on my own hard luck experience.
Hope these items are now in for the current lads and lasses, but I doubt it. It seems too hard to grasp.
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