That trenchcoat most likely dates from between 1955 and 1958. In 1955, the Army adopted a Specialist Third Class (E-4) rank which was 2" across at the top. In 1958, the rank insignia for males was widened to a little over 3", though males were authorized to continue to wear the smaller rank until they were promoted, demoted, or left the Army. Since that is a men's trenchcoat, with the 2" rank insignia, it was most likely worn by a soldier during the period 1955-1958. The 1st Armored Division was stationed at Fort Hood, TX from 1951 to 1956, at which time it was moved to Fort Polk, LA, until 1971, when it moved to Germany.

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My current kit. The merrels are just filling the gap, it was irritating me.

Want to move the medkit, the BFG pouches on the side I never really use so may ditch them. Usually have the leatherman and surefire on my belt with the little maxpedition pouch but was finding it too heavy so ditched them. Will potentially stick them back on when I get a battlebelt.

What do you do for water? Separate carrier?

Do want!

Its in my day sack, bladder and nalgene. On my issue webbing belt kit I carry a litre, and another in day sack. I do want a molle bladder carrier for the back of my plate carrier though.

RBAV-AF with plates and soft armor
HSGI battle belt
Ops Core ballistic helmet with PVS-14 and peltor ear pro
SBR with suppressor, red dot and DBAL A3
S&W M&P 9mm CORE with trijicon RMR07
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Lekker. I do mostly the same with most the water in my assault pack- bladder and a bottle. I have a BFG Ten Speed pouch at 0800 on my belt with a washed-out and painted protein shake bottle so I have something on me at all times (important consideration in the desert). The Ten Speed pouch lays flat with the bottle removed if I throw my pack on over it.

Lekker haha worked with or are a saffa?

Ya I am looking at getting an HSGI suregrip in the future which I will probably set out as a full belt kit and put some water on it.

I've known a couple folks from ZA, but I've been learning Afrikaans in bits and pieces since it's so goddamned easy, and I have a general interest in the various southern African bush wars. I need to get back at the language learning, though.

The Sure Grip is one hell of a belt. I wear mine at the range, hiking, or just out walking the dogs. Tot later!

place holder

re-editing picture...stand by.

Don't let this thread die! Placeholder for new AVS.

Aaaaaand here she is with one of the HighCom 4SAS7 SAPI-M plates that I just got yesterday. Time to get a harness and pouches.

Extreme Gear Labs is building me a new chest-rig. Pics coming soon. 

How long has your wait been?

PB150350PS by Matt Skibert, on Flickr

Well, most of February. Reason being the USPS lost my Emdom IAPs I sent to him to use so he'd be able to fit everything together neatly. Basically the IAPs will be used on the left side of the rig but the rest of the rig will be stitched together so I won't be able to move anything around. Make sense? The kangaroo pouch will use the Spiritus mag inserts so I can switch between AR and SR platforms with just enough room to fit a pistol in there or whatever else. The Spiritus mag inserts accommodate either three AR or two SR mags.

Anyways, the IAPs were finally delivered earlier this week so I'm hoping he's able to get going with it.

LE with a shockwave, interdasting

lol, get ready to wait more.  I paid and ordered mid August '16.

Velocity Systems Micro Diddie Pouch showed up today

 And you're still waiting?!

It gets around the rifle qual, waiting on my tax stamp

Cheap Trunk/Truck gun kit.

I got the Re Factor Tactical ASO Bag a few months ago, and it's simply amazing. It's not too big like my LBT1568C Bag but bigger than most other bags. It has an awesome pull down side pouch and it's not conspicuous. I currently keep my Plate Carrier, Spiritus MK2, Peltors, Condor

I ordered a Multicam Tropic VOCR 4 Heavy from him while deployed and it took 9 months to get to me. I realized it would be a long wait but not that long. Absolutely superb work though. Great piece of kit.

Finally have my belt configured how I want it.

HSGI Slim Grip
MARZ Tactical Cobra Belt
(3) HSGI Pistol Taco
(2) HSGI Rifle Taco
Velocity Systems Micro Diddie (Dump Pouch)
MSM Patch Panel
Dark Angel Medical D.A.R.K. Kit (wayyy too bulky, and will be replaced with something smaller)
Safariland Drop Mount w/ QLS
Safariland ALS Holster
Eleven10 Gear RIGID TQ Case

I love the Safariland ALS holster. I use that one for off duty.

Fuck. 

But I'm committed at this point and I'm in no real hurry, so fuckit. Sounds like the quality is worth the wait. 

It's good, but that is still a really long time. 8-9 months is quite awhile.

Who does he think he is, John Willis minus the douche attitude? 

But the money they want for that thing 

In my experience, he still has a douche attitude. That kind of happens when you make quality gear though.

Good evening.
A little equipment from the dark side.
The manufacturer of equipment "SSO" (the exception is the belt, the company "Splav").
Airsoft team from Russia "Ratnik".

Ronin Tactics Belt
HSGI Mag Pouches
T-Rex Arms Ragnarok
Maxpedition Dump Pouch
Magpul Sling

Esstac Iberian Boar, MSM Stealth Admin, MSM Velcro holster thingy, MSClean kit, Gerber Strongarm, ITW Fastmag, MSM bottle caddy, Kleen Kanteen bottle.

Nice stuff. Of course i'm a sucker for grey so this is hawt. But I like the simplicity of all of the things and I'm a big fan of my Ragnarok holster too.

Real nice.

Thank you. I love grey too. I need a grey grip for this AR15 pistol.

Absolutely love the Ragnarok. It's my favorite holster by far. I wish their Sidecar holsters shipped as fast as their Ragnaroks though. I've been waiting over a month for my second Sidecar.



Thanks!

I'm a firm believer of having the FAK on the first line.  I wasn't sure what to do with it so I settled, settled on having it vertical on my left side.  Naturally this made it inaccessible to my right hand.  


Battle Belt by Dan Passaro, on Flickr





Ideally a centered setup would be best.  I did try what I had but vertical made it difficult to sit and pulling it up out of the pouch was very challenging.   I finally made a new setup, again center-back but horizontal and easy to reach with either hand:

Untitled by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

by Dan Passaro, on Flickr



It's certainly more compact without the tourniquet integrated in the vacuum bag.  I'm still considering separating the TQ but the whole package still 'works' in the sitting position.  I can pull it from either side and the orange tape indicates the tear areas to get to the components.  I did the FoodSaver vacuum bag to keep things clean and avoid sand and whatever from abrasively putting holes in anything.

The bumps you see in the pull tabs is just more duct tape, probably 12" worth, wrapped up into a cylinder.  That is 6" wide elastic from ebay, sewed with a single strand of paracord guts lol

I always have the TQ in a separate pouch on my belt. Just keeps the whole setup lower profile. On my PC it's a bit of a different story since I've got DARK Gen 3's on my both my work and personal rigs.

The latest iteration of my setup.  Still, as it has been for years, a work in progress.  Still need an IFAK (leaning towards the Chinook right now) and will likely change placement a bit.  I'd like to make mods to some items as well if I can.  The virtue here is that it's affordable.  I'm not sure that I even have $120 into this setup.

1956 LCE with some mods? If so that is awesome.

It's a mish-mash of stuff.  Belt is the later ALICE belt with the Fastex buckle; suspenders are a set of NOS M1967 suspenders that I found at the surplus store.

Field pack ("butt pack") is a repro M1961 that I got at the surplus store and fitted with fastex buckles; I will often roll up rain gear and strap it to the bottom.  The rubber throat was torn and worthless so I cut that out.  Attached on the left side is a Tactical Tailor small radio pouch (barely visible in the picture).  The hand mike for the radio was run through the pouch for the shoulder straps of the Camelbak and attached to the web strap on the suspenders.  Attached to the field pack, run through the suspender straps, and clipped into the shoulder clips of the M1967 suspenders is a Camelbak Thermobak, 3L.  The hose is run under the armpit and attached using a Web Dominator.

From left to right on the belt I have a Belgian Hi-Power double mag pouch; a Canadian Pattern 82 FAL double mag pouch; a FAL bayonet with frog and scabbard, above which is an Esstac Kywi single pistol mag pouch (courtesy of their Cola Warrior sponsorship); another double FAL mag pouch; a Blue Force Gear Ten Speed dump pouch; an ALICE canteen cover with USGI plastic 1 qt. canteen and cup; M1967 canteen cover with USGI 1 qt. canteen; ALICE fastex belt extender; Belgian Hi-Power holster (carries a spare mag and cleaning rod in addition to the pistol); and a final FAL double mag pouch.  

The difference in weight on each side is no more than a few ounces, so the distribution works out reasonably well, especially with the H-suspenders (I like them better than the Y-suspenders I had on my rig a few years ago).

While obsolete as a primary attachment method, the M1910 wire hangers do have their use on a belt setup.  They allow you to mount two things in the same spot without stacking, like with the pistol mag pouch and bayonet.  They can also allow attachment where a more conventional pouch might not fit, such as with the double pistol mag pouch; I originally had an ALICE pouch there, and while I wear the belt a bit loose, I had lost enough inches to where it was way too loose and had to shorten the belt which made it so that the ALICE M9 mag pouch could no longer be placed in that spot.  Tried the Belgian pouch and it fit quite well.  I want to see if someone can add some MOLLE webbing to the sides and bottom of the FAL mag pouches (single column; four rows on the sides, two on the bottom) and a panel with grommets to the back of the pouch with the grommeted portion sitting below the pouch like on the M1961 M-14 mag pouches.  I'd also want to modify the ALICE/MOLLE adapters so that they have a wire hanger sewn in so I can hang the dump pouch below the rearmost mag pouch on the left.  Adding webbing to the canteen pouches so that a compass pouch sized pouch can be attached there (or sew one of those directly on) is also something I want to have done plus add webbing to the butt pack ro have a new, modernized version made.

Semi-minimalist chest rig.

HSGI AO Chest Rig.  The rig came with a loop panel to match that hook.  I requested another loop panel, whatever the cost as I couldn't find the right size, but then I also requested they sew it for me.  For a fee I have a double sided loop panel.
Esstac triple AR kywi.  I'm changing this out to an HSGI Triple TACO shingle for mag flexibility
Blue Force Gear Admin Pouch
HSGI Soft TACO
Two GRIMLOCs added
PIG Delta gloves

Concerning the Admin Pouch:
It'll fit three G19 mags, two will fit with the other stuff still inside.
The elastic sleeve was stitched together using a Speedy Stitcher lol.  Inside is a spare bolt w o-ring, one front sight tool (DPMS I think), one MBUS front sight tool and a .223 broken shell extractor from Brownells.  I added orange gaffer tape to those small items just in case they fall in the grass.
An SD card case with Lubriplate grease inside, a 10ml needle dropper with Lubriplate oil inside.  A Countycomm AAA flashlight, Lo-Hi.  The orange is 3/32 tether line, again from Countycomm.  The pouch has two of those tether points.
The Kershaw is a Leek 1660.


AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

AO Chest Rig by Dan Passaro, on Flickr

Curious as to the purpose of the double sided loop panel?

I suppose, in a perfect world, the panel on the rig would be loop

But I guess most attachable things are loop, requiring the 'base' to be hook.

The floating loop panel had a rough back that was catching on clothing.  The double-sided loop solved that while also making it easy to attach either sort of accessory item; it wouldn't matter if the accessory had loop or hook.  Loop could be sandwiched, hook could be stuck on.

This looks perfect! Do you have the measurements on the map pocket in the fourth picture?

I like it.

From the curve up to the seam is 5.5in.  I would say usable is 5.25in.  Easily accommodating the 'typical' folding convenience store roadmap.

Both ends open up, from the inside seam of each velcro is 11in (total width, edge-to-edge, is 13in)