Hatchet Man said:
Everytime I have ever used it we wore jocks (outside our uniforms of course).
HAH!! yeah!! Makes everyone look like something out of "A Clockwork Orange"... Welly-welly-welly-well...
Good times.
Funny story about simunition;
The first experience I had with simunition was during a weekend ex, late fall. It was cold. First lesson; Cold and simunition don't mix.
I was playing "enemy force"; we were instructed to defend our position to the last man, and put up a good fight. We were also instructed to 'play up' injuries and wounds to add realism.
When the company attacked our position, they got very close before we came under 'effective fire'. Lesson 2; Simunition is very short ranged. So, the first contact I had with simunition was a shot to the thigh at roughly 10 feet. At first, when the round hit, I didn't feel it, so I "acted" injured; grabbing my leg saying "ooh... I'm hurt." Then the actual feeling of the round hit, and I found my self on the ground screaming in pain. Lesson 3; Simunition, when frozen, has much the same effect as a real bullet, especially at close range. It had punctured my combats and my skin. I ripped my pant leg open more to get at the round and had to pry it out of my thigh with my gerber... It also left a huge welt, which formed almost instantly.
The worst part was; everyone thought I was just "acting out" the injury, until they came and saw it... It was nasty.
Simunition is good stuff, but you have to have the right circumstances. equipment and training to use it effectively and without injury.