What is the best piece of kit ever issued
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What is the best piece of kit ever issued
Just a fun thread for you today. What is the best piece of kit you have ever been issued past or present ?
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1972 Disruptive Pattern Cold Weather Flying Jacket. I rescued it from the waste skip after handing it in on leaving in 1996 - and I still use it for Gardening today.
RAF Flying gloves,and silk inners..
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Issue long johns with a 1953 maker's label. Six years older than me, spent twenty-six years on shelves being counted by generations of stackers before finally issued to me in 1979.
Have kept me warm on many a cold day since.
AR15 was nice, too, but I didn't get to keep it, sadly
Have kept me warm on many a cold day since.
AR15 was nice, too, but I didn't get to keep it, sadly
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Yeah Shack37 !!
RAF Form 1767
(Revised Dec 1964)
First entry 14 January 1970.
... and the required "Bone Dome" - and if you were caught swinging it by the straps ???
(Revised Dec 1964)
First entry 14 January 1970.
... and the required "Bone Dome" - and if you were caught swinging it by the straps ???
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I quite liked the kit issued to Section Officer Harvey in the Battle of Britain. Kathy West did a pretty good batlefield reconstruction later I recall. Please, do not post the images - BEags is getting on a bit nowadays
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Kathy West did a pretty good batlefield reconstruction
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The 'KD' pyjama's that we were issued with in the 50's and 60's. I had about half a dozen pairs that lasted many years into civvy St.
My shoe brushes are still operating 100% after 57 years
I must also 2nd the GS Screwdriver. I wish I'd managed to keep one.
My shoe brushes are still operating 100% after 57 years
I must also 2nd the GS Screwdriver. I wish I'd managed to keep one.
I nominate the "head-over" thingy, mine is a grey colour not like the war-like green stuff issued thesedays. I still use mine at Bath Rugby and still get weird looks--I don't know if it's me or my grey thingy.
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Having compared at length the relative merits and assets of Kathy West and 'Section Officer Harvey', I have to conclude a preference for the latter....
Or rather, the 1968 model of the latter.
Or rather, the 1968 model of the latter.
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Compo widget is good, still have two and the Spam version which is about twice the length so easier to use.
Compo sausages.
Cold wx flying jacket was pretty good.
Big Blue Bogroll.
Worst?
V-neck wooly pully.
Issue KD.
Issue instant coffee.
Compo sausages.
Cold wx flying jacket was pretty good.
Big Blue Bogroll.
Worst?
V-neck wooly pully.
Issue KD.
Issue instant coffee.
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Another vote for the compo tin opener thingy.......and also for the 70's style hold-all....the ones with the solid base....always useful for, ahem, "encouraging" Tube travellers to make a space for you if "excuse me please" didn't work...a rather satisfying sound of wood on shin usually got the message across thereafter....still got two in fact... as robust now as they were back then.
