They had developed cased ammunition by the time you were in your 20s? I assumed smokeless powder had been a new thing for you.Not until you've worn the brown one and used weights made out of nine millimetre bullets in your pants.
The weights we had only has the bullets sewn into a little cloth sleeve to create that oh so perfect drape over your puttees. I never asked where the bullets came from. And yes, my first helmet was the British-style flat-top with 51 pattern webbing.They had developed cased ammunition by the time you were in your 20s? I assumed smokeless powder had been a new thing for you.
The pieces all fit eventually…For those who were lucky enough not to have to jam a Melmac plate into a 82 pattern butt-pack:
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Yes…eventually…The pieces all fit eventually…
Honestly the individually issued Melmac plate had to be the stupidest piece of kit ever.Yes…eventually…
Now, going back to what started this, if the Italians had melmac plates shoved into their webbing, then they wouldn’t have had to eat out of hay boxes with their hands like savages!
Oh yes it was a horrible germinatore.... Didn't stop dinosaurs from saying that dipping it in bleach and then shoving it one's buttpack was gtg.Melmac =food poisoning , it never seemed to occur to various units that the ability to clean and sanitize said dish and flatware wasa good idea.
And melmac plates seemed all but designed to provide the perfect surface for all sorts of bugs to grow on .
Institutionalization.Mind you I wish I had a set , and I am not entirely sure why .
Melmac =food poisoning , it never seemed to occur to various units that the ability to clean and sanitize said dish and flatware wasa good idea.
And melmac plates seemed all but designed to provide the perfect surface for all sorts of bugs to grow on .
Mind you I wish I had a set , and I am not entirely sure why .
There is all that and the realization that fighting folks should not carry plates and utensils as part of their fighting order. That is better supplied to them and allow them to carry warfighting things.Maybe it was just easier to blame scratched melmac as a "perfect media for bacteria".
They just finished their 1630hrs supper at the Legion Villa and are headed to bed with a glass of warm milk. In their melmac cup no less...Somewhere, someone is having conniptions at the thought that troops wouldn’t be carrying plates in their FFO…
I still remember my second world war veteran Father staring at it when I unloaded all the gear I'd brought home from the Armory.No. If the "various units" had just followed rather simple protocols for a clean up line (basins for wash, rinse, disinfect, then air dry) then there's no problem. But the use of individual's personal plates and utensils were not intended exclusively for hayboxes. In the days of yore, flying kitchens were the norm whether on "concentration" or even a company sized exercise. Even before we shelved the aluminum mess tins (did we? can't remember) and started using melmac, a field kitchen set-up would include a clean-up line (cooks knew it, medics/PMeds knew it and good Sgts Maj knew it - just as they also knew the proper placement, depth and coverage for latrines and grease pits). But I guess, in the same manner as some pers apparently never see the need to wash their hands after wiping their ass, some couldn't grasp the logic that if a unit/sub-unit/sub-sub-unit wasn't able to provide a wash-up line if their meals were sent forward in hayboxes then disposable plates and utensils should be provided. Perhaps blame CQs for being cheap?
Maybe it was just easier to blame scratched melmac as a "perfect media for bacteria".
Full place setting?
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TBF I was caught out in exchange with the Kiwis and was eating meals out of the Nalgene se fitting canteen cup I bought at mec. “That’s a small tin for a big man” stopped being funny after three daysYes…eventually…
Now, going back to what started this, if the Italians had melmac plates shoved into their webbing, then they wouldn’t have had to eat out of hay boxes with their hands like savages!
If the Army didn't want you to have Melmac in the field, then it wouldn't have issued you a gas mask carrier to put it in.There is all that and the realization that fighting folks should not carry plates and utensils as part of their fighting order. That is better supplied to them and allow them to carry warfighting things.
Didn't have butt packs in those days. Even had to use my mess tin carrier for my rain jacket - yup they were that thin. 64 Pattern was webbing-light and mostly useless.Melmac goes in the buttpack.
Soft drinks and snacks in the gas mask carrier.