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Personal equipment carried by the common British soldier
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- A Coast Guard LCI, listing to port, pulls alongside a transport ship to evacuate her troops and wounded just before the craft capsized and sank during the initial invasion.
Personal equipment carried by the common British soldier: 1. Silva compass - used for basic navigation and fire control orders 2. Karabiner - used for securing kit and equipment to the vehicles 3. Osprey body armor shoulder and neck attachments - the armor increases protection but can be very restrictive so these parts are detachable depending on the threat assessment 4. Osprey body armor; can be fitted with pouches to carry everything from ammunition, water, first aid kits and grenade or with plates and protective attachments (as shown) 5. Notebook 6. Warm weather hat 7. Spare clothing including underwear trousers, UBAS (Under body Armor Shirt) and normal shirt 8. Dog tags 9. A desert issued belt 10. Beret - used for repatriation ceremonies, vigils and large parades 11. Shemagh - to soak up sweat and also a dust guard 12. Gloves 13. Sandals – issued kit, as soldiers may need to run for cover even while showering 14. Boots 15. Multi tool 16. Wash kit 17. GSR - general service respirator 18. A housewife – a basic sewing kit; a soldier has to repair his own rips and tears on the ground 19. Socks, scarf, wristwatch 20. Camel pack - drinking water pack 21. Cooker and mug and tea making kit 22. Rations - quantity will depend on the task but soldiers normally carry about 24 hours worth 23. First aid kit including the (black) tourniquet and (grey) first field dressing 24. Ballistic protection - used to protect the groin from IED blast 25. Knee pads - offer protection to a soldier whilst "taking a knee" from the heat of the ground or rocky areas 26. Sleeping bag with an inflatable roll mat 27. Camera, cigarettes 28. Radio - BOWMAN Radio system (HF, VHF or even SAT Comms), daysack could also be fitted with ECM (Electronic counter measures) 29. Personal role radio - used for line of sight communications within a small patrol 30. Magazine 31. Envelopes 32. Mine extraction kit fitted with a mine prodder, instruction and mine marking kit 33. Weapon cleaning kit 34. Holster 35. Pistol - used as a second weapon system and in confined spaces or where a "long" weapon is unsuitable. Sig and Glock have mostly replaced the Browning 9mm caliber 36. Bar mine - anti-tank landmine 37. Head torch - can be fitted with colored lenses for more tactical situations 38. Bayonet and bayonet scabbard 39. SA80 A2 fitted with a desert hand guard, upgraded flash eliminator and bipod, all issued for Afghanistan and a SUSAT sight system. It is 5.56 caliber and is here issued with 6 magazines which can hold 30 rounds each 40. Ballistic eye protection - normally goggles or sunglasses 41. Mk 6 Helmet fitted with Helmet mounted night vision systems 42. iPad - personal effect for down time 43. Poncho [Source: The Telegraph | Inventories of war | Aug 07, 2014 ++] ********************************* Military History ► Pearl Harbor | Ed Solace Ed Johann was aboard USS Solace, a hospital ship, in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese military attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. Though he rescued many casualties, what he remembers most aren't the heroics, but the horrors, the fires, the men. He was only 17. Johann had joined the military before the war to receive the salary - $21 a month, sending $10 home each month to his parents. Johann said the "hard times," the Great Depression, hit his family and the money he could send home from the Navy was a "big plus" for them. Johann worked as part of a sort of taxi service, taking men to the PX for supplies, to visit family and friends or to the mainland to walk on solid ground. "The morning of Dec. 7 we were already down at the end of the gangway, taking the fellas that wanted to do that, when the attack started,” he said. "Pearl Harbor turned into a harbor of hell in a short while," he said. More than 2,000 servicemen would die, and another more than 1,100 would be wounded. Johann and his fellow seamen began pulling bodies from the bay. "We handled the first [American] casualties of World War II that morning." "I just a young kid, practically. I was a boy sailor. All I could think about was trying to help the other fellas. A lot of them were injured, some were calm. A lot were injured; some were screaming in shock and pain. There were a lot of burns. "Some of the oil in the water was on fire . ... If you went to pull guys out of the water by their arm, skin would just slip off . ... "And all this time, the planes were bombing, the planes were strapping, the planes were dropping torpedoes. The casualties were stacking up faster than we could handle them because of the intensifying of that." Even so, the men on Solace continued to save men, eventually earning Johann a commendation from his service, particularly because he "went alongside of the burning USS Arizona in order to rescue casualties while the crew of that ship were abandoning ship." Johann said that the next day, the wounded dead were taken to the mainland. "They didn't have dog tags yet. They just had tags tied on their big toes, says 'unknown, unknown.'" Johann would go on to serve in the Pacific theater, including Guadalcanal among others, and was discharged in 1945. "After the war was over, then we could breathe easy, but by then I was well-trained on these battle scenes." The experience of that terrifying day impacted the rest of his life, but not in the way one might expect. "I figured if I live through this I’m gonna spend the rest of my life trying to save people, which is why I got into the fire department and mountain rescue afterwards," he said. Johann went on to serve as a firefighter in Oregon for nearly 30 years. He lives in a cottage he built in Lincoln City, Ore. [Source: American Legion } Legiontown | October 12, 2014 ++] ******************************** D-Day ► Doomed Troop Transfer at Sea 
A Coast Guard LCI, listing to port, pulls alongside a transport ship to evacuate her troops and wounded just before the craft capsized and sank during the initial invasion. Helmeted troops, with full packs, are all to the starboard side. ********************************* WWII Prewar Events ► Munich Populace Cheers Hitler Nov 1933 
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