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I kind of figured that out when those making the claim always said it was the pattern of parka just previous to whatever one you were issued that had the soup buttons. I confessing to licking one or two of the really old looking ones to see if they tasted like beef bullion however.
Naw. When fact and myth collide, go with the myth.
Fact or not not, the concept has some merit. However, now you are waking around in the arctic with no buttons on your parka. I suppose that if you're starving, it really doesn't matter for long.
Ever since my Churchill experience, I have never complained about the heat. I know that heat can kill you as well as cold, but if you have shade and water, you'll survive. Cold is insidious and it will lull you into asleep from which you will not awaken.
A lady walked away from a dance at the Navy base in Churchill after an argument with her date. It was about 5 kms to the civilian town site, if I recall correctly. She was found the next day asleep in a snow bank in her party dress and mukluks. I was hospitalized with a boil and an Indian in the ward had black skeletal hands awaiting amputation. He had fallen asleep in a snow bank hanging onto his wine bottle.
The idea of arctic warfare holds about as much appeal as does nuclear war. Both are a vision of hell.
Fact or not not, the concept has some merit. However, now you are waking around in the arctic with no buttons on your parka. I suppose that if you're starving, it really doesn't matter for long.
Ever since my Churchill experience, I have never complained about the heat. I know that heat can kill you as well as cold, but if you have shade and water, you'll survive. Cold is insidious and it will lull you into asleep from which you will not awaken.
A lady walked away from a dance at the Navy base in Churchill after an argument with her date. It was about 5 kms to the civilian town site, if I recall correctly. She was found the next day asleep in a snow bank in her party dress and mukluks. I was hospitalized with a boil and an Indian in the ward had black skeletal hands awaiting amputation. He had fallen asleep in a snow bank hanging onto his wine bottle.
The idea of arctic warfare holds about as much appeal as does nuclear war. Both are a vision of hell.
AP wrote "I always thought McCracken was the Base Commander."
He was the Base Commander. All of the others were there for pomp and show.
The RSMs and the other Sergeants really run the show. They make the designated Base Commander look good if he leaves them alone and lets them to do their jobs.
He was the Base Commander. All of the others were there for pomp and show.
The RSMs and the other Sergeants really run the show. They make the designated Base Commander look good if he leaves them alone and lets them to do their jobs.
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There was once a thing for a very brief time late 40s early fifties on garments packed for arctic survival on aircraft
I seen them , the ones I seen were in alert in one of the small displays up there in the early 90s
They looked like cardboard or rawhide
i read about the RSM Mick the Stick Austin, he was a RSM of the 2nd battalion, PPCLI, this was just after the war, he was sent to the Air Force Base at Trenton, to give the airmen, a refresher course in drill, with rifles, who had been chosen to mount guard, when the then Princess Elizabeth's arrival at Trenton
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Dark Alley Dan
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Looks pretty damned miserable, regardless of era, kit, or enemy.
"Austro-Hungarian troops in the Carpathians, 1914 or '15."
"Austro-Hungarian troops in the Carpathians, 1914 or '15."
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Seriously, you mean to tell me the buttons aren't edible??? Oh boy, that's not good news......
The ones i mentioned were edible and you would not want to eat ........I think it was one of those "good idea fairy" things they were not reg issue .
Seriously, you mean to tell me the buttons aren't edible??? Oh boy, that's not good news......
Dont worry about it.... XRCD011 is only pissing in our corn flakes because he probably never got the 'peanut butter and jam flavoured' buttons like us! Sore loser! The 'spangles' were nice too.
Dark Alley Dan
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Were/are the Hagglunds any good?
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Were/are the Hagglunds any good?
Good ? yeah I guess they were , I shake my head at thier use in the pick above but in alert they seemed pretty robust . the front units seats is were you want to be and the back well.....ecch !
they are 4 track drive and there is an intercom to talk to the cab forget about hearing it lol
Seriously, you mean to tell me the buttons aren't edible??? Oh boy, that's not good news......
Hey.......... feel free to gobble up all the buttons you wish, even the parka zippers and draw strings also, have fun trying to pass that lot.
maple_leaf_eh
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Were/are the Hagglunds any good?
I guess if you want to navigate dry land, wet land, ice, tundra and open water. These are prized vehicles by any crews working on challenging terrain. The British have a mini-fighting vehicle version called the Viking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BvS_10
Were/are the Hagglunds any good?
Saw a couple set's of those for sale along Hwy.11 in Kapuskasing a couple year's ago, near the Mcdonald's
