SASR rockin' some SDS

[Ghostryder]

The Title is self explanitory, enjoy:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/jschofosho/JPAU18APR03JC03.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/jschofosho/JPAU18APR03JC02.jpg

[andreen]

Is that a RACK (RANGER ASSAULT CARRY KIT) on the SASR guy?

[bigjeff]

Is that a RACK (RANGER ASSAULT CARRY KIT) on the SASR guy?

yeh this is for sure.

[cshchan]

Why do SF often not wear body armour?

[Ravage]

I'm no military but I think to have beter maneuverability. If nothing dampers Your movements it's a lot easier to move and operate.
Plus, the weight of personal body armor is quite big if you ask me p-)

[PeaceWithMyPiece]

Nice pics. Got any more?

[DocEbola]

I know as a medic we hate wearing our IBA. I couldn't imagine the SOF wearing it day in and day out.

[bigjeff]

The best way to protect urself is to take down the enemy.Without the bod armour,the mobility increases and so does the chances to take down enemy.

[Royal]

Has it ever occured to any of you that just 'cos line troops wear one kind of big, bulky (and cheap) body armour, other people don't wear something different?

[PaulClift]

I'm sure I've seen the top picture before, but not as hi-res, nice thanks.

[RGRBOX]

The Title is self explanitory, enjoy:

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4979/jpau18apr03jc021hv.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2930/jpau18apr03jc032ry.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Hey Ghostryder.. any future plans to post those pice... they don't work mate...

[TacoDelRio]

SOF don't wear no body armor. You learn how to catch the boolits in SOPC....

[RGRBOX]

I never wore any body armor back in the day... I remember them handing out flak vest to us for the invasion of Haiti.. I prefered to just run fast..

[lt tahoe]

That's cause the PASGT didn't stop sh*t. The IBA is a lot better at stopping bullets.

My take: For the most part, pretty much everyone wears body armor in the current AO. Lots of urban terrain time, and you never know when an IED will go off; I'd wear mine as much as possible.

[3rdMillhouse]

Curse ImageShack, change your hosting service.

[Frost]

SOF don't wear no body armor. You learn how to catch the boolits in SOPC....

You haven't paid a lot of attention than. SF do use bodyarmor when they expect combat. Or platecarriers when they think normal bodyarmor is too bulky and they'll maily face bullets.

But SF also do a lot of recon and than they don't want to do any combat. They want to stay hidden and unseen. In that case they don't use bodyarmor.

Normal soldiers ALL wear bodyarmor. Current operation are a lot of MOUT and vehicle-borne and less humping around with a backpack of 40kg. When facing IED's, handgrenades and CQB, it's pretty usefull to wear bodyarmor. It's a fact that the Interceptor bodyarmor saved a lot of lives in Iraq

[Ghostryder]

Frost, Mr. Skor's post was a joke.

I fixed the pix (screw imageshack), and would like to say:

A. These photos come from very early in the War when many forces, digger or otherwise had no armor pro.

B. SF do what they gotta do.

C. Type "Australian Army Images" click on the first site, open image gallery, and search for "Special Forces".

enjoy

[RGRBOX]

Back when I was in, we didn't have the OTV.. The RBA did exsist the last couple of years , but we did get that either, that is not when I was in the division. I know that my Bn got RBAs before deployment to Bosnia. Back when I was in the Bat. We didn't have anything but the Flak vest... no one wore it though..

[Crna Legija]

Check my old thread out.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=67969

[BiZ]

Hi-res

http://xs72.xs.to/pics/06112/JPAU18APR03JC03.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs72&d=06112&f=JPAU18APR03JC03.jpg)

http://xs72.xs.to/pics/06112/sasr12.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs72&d=06112&f=sasr12.jpg)

Not often you get a thread with 2 images in it...

[MSR]

A. These photos come from very early in the War when many forces, digger or otherwise had no armor pro.


What? Don't me laugh. There was plenty of body armour around in Iraq in 03 mate.
The main reason they aren't wearing it IMO is the fact that these photo's were taken after the airbase had been taken and 4RAR were in town securing it whilst an in depth search was being conducted.
These regiment guys probably couldn't be arsed putting their armour on because they were shafted with a photo op for goverment publicity.
4RAR don't have armour on either in the photos taken at the same time

[RGRBOX]

That camo works great... I'm still looking for a complete aussi desert uniform..

[Sierra_Tango69]

nice pcitures. The SASR is looking good.

[garoco]

Not being there myself, but knowing how Army PR work old mate MSR nailed it here :

"These regiment guys probably couldn't be arsed putting their armour on because they were shafted with a photo op for goverment publicity."

:-)

[MSR]

Still good photos though :)

[burnt by the sun]

SOF don't wear no body armor. You learn how to catch the boolits in SOPC....

yeah SOPC... street kids who haven't even seen what the real army is like. the 18X program was a ****in joke you can't make a spec ops soldier over night. a lot of iraq vets are going trough SFAS though. thats what they need not some punk ass kid from california.

[Chops]

yeah SOPC... street kids who haven't even seen what the real army is like. the 18X program was a ****in joke you can't make a spec ops soldier over night. a lot of iraq vets are going trough SFAS though. thats what they need not some punk ass kid from california.

Er...pretty sure he was being sarcastic...Skorotsnoy's alright man

cheers

C

[Pete031]

Probably just doing rehearsals

[Ghostryder]

My bad MSR,

what can I say, I'm still learning