Req: Poncho liners in your Military.

[Cipher]

My poncho smells bad.

[LineDoggie]

My poncho smells bad.

Take a shower once in a while, Coyote is a color, not an Aroma

[LineDoggie]

I have several poncho liners aquired over the years, but I'm with BeeGee, a tropical sleeping bag can be opened up and used as a picnic rug of whatever poncho liners are actually intended for or it can actually be used as a sleeping bag. The British military made the technological jump from blanket to sleeping bag during WWII - seems the rest of the world is yet to catch up

I know the US Army had sleeping bags for Mountain Troops, M1942 and by 1944 was issuing a wool sleeping bag to frontline infantry units in the ETO/MTO. then there was the postwar M1945 bag which was down filled and with a water repellent cover you laced on. That was extensively used during the Korean War.

[Blutarsky]

I think I saw a photo of a German bag that had sleeves or gumby feet or some such....maybe for standing to without getting out of your bag?

One useful item is a lightweight/silk bag you can wrap around your muddy boots so you can jump in your bag without taking them off and getting your bag nasty.

Austrian bag has openings for arms and legs. Good for hunting in the cold. Great gear for 15 Euro.
http://www.asmc.de/de/Camping/Schlaf...braucht-p.html

[apod]

Take a shower once in a while, Coyote is a color, not an Aroma

LMFAO

Austrian bag has openings for arms and legs. Good for hunting in the cold. Great gear for 15 Euro.
http://www.asmc.de/de/Camping/Schlaf...braucht-p.html

I think we have gone off slightly on a tangent here folks.Nice bag but the original question still applies.Does Austria issue a P/Liner to it's troops aswell??

[apod]

Our "new" Poncho liner, which is really a sleeping bag, that can be unzipped into the original design, with the same material as the original poncho liner is the cats ass. Mixed with a bivy bag for warm climates, or as a sleeping bag liner that you can wash much easier in cold climates. It also has the hole in the center so that you can throw it over top, when on sentry or in a defensive position. Things that a sleeping bag wont let you do. Hands down one of the best pieces of kit to ever be issued.

I take it you are Canadian yeah?? Nice bit of kit.Tell me do they come with a stuff sack?Or do you have to buy one for it?

[Pete031]

No, no stuff sack.... They don't compress like a softie, usually you have them in your bivy bag, or sleeping back or, roll them up... They fit pretty much everywhere

[apod]

Thanks Pete.Without wanting to perpetuate thread drift have the CF issued the new Nanok sleeping bags to ye yet?

[Pete031]

Not to the Big green Army. But they are around.

[JC0352]

My poncho liner was the only piece of issued field gear I kept when I EAS'd. Love that thing.

[trunk_munkey28]

I agree with Pete, the new CF poncho liner / Ranger blanket is the cat's ass.

[Bacon]

I used to use my ranger blanket as a cover/blanket on my couch. Haha