Woodland pouches on CB OTV?
I'm ordering an SDS CB OTV soon, and I'm going for USMC. I need to know whether to buy Woodland or CB pouches.
I know many Marines are using woodland pouches, their old pouches. I assume they're not going to stick with woodland forever, as it's pretty much out of the picture for anything. Are any Marines being issued CB pouches? If there aren't any, are they going to be issued CB pouches anytime in the near future?
Thanks in advance.
Just couldent wait to ask me?
I assume they will be issued CB Pouches in the future, if you feel comfortable with an all CB loadout then go with it. Like I've said, some Marines use BHI STRiKE CT Pouches (Cmdrfire informed me of this, and also has them on his CB SDS OTV). Current: Woodland Pouches, Future: CB Pouches (most likely) so choose where you wanna base your loadout off of and go from there.
I'm pretty sure they are going to move to MARPAT pouches if anything, not coyote. The reason they made the OTV in a coyote brown/tan is to eliminate the need for two OTVs for arid and temperate enviroments, so there is no extreme. They should still issue woodland/3color and in the future arid and temperate MARPAT pouches to enhance camoflauge, since have different colored pouches is less of a stress on logistics than different colored OTVs. Atleast, that was the last I heard. They might be moving to an all-coyote deal.
no, they are going for CB only, so that the vest goes with the temperate aswell as the desert marpat.
couldent be anymore wrong, Coyote Brown is the Marine Corps color choice for Gear.Originally Posted by HoboWithAK
I read it somewhere, but i'm not going digging for it. Never said it was the truth.
Ok, I'll probably just stick to woodland.
One more question for you all.
http://www.entrygear.com/product.asp?id=1060
This OTV is JUST cloth, it includes absolutely no foam or soft armor or any such, correct?
I want to know because if I order this and it's just cloth, I'll need to start researching for some type of cheap material to stuff in there to substitute for the soft armor and whatever else is usually in there.
Thanks so much in advance.
Check out you're local arts&crafts store, and look around for a light weight-cheap material.
Soft foam works as an insert for the OTV. The OTV itself is just a cover made out of what appears to be 750 weight ballistic nylon. It's good quality, and very similar to the Cordura that's used in the PBI gear.
Marines are being issued with Coyote pouches from AITES, but from what I understand usually Gunnys allow BHI gear in CB as well (this is certainly the case with my friend's platoon; they bought a ton of BHI gear in bulk to replace their old woodland pouches). CB is the official USMC equipment issue now, to save on cost and preperation time when transferring from one enviro to the other.
USMC0300, I got your pics (finally!), I'll upload 'em soon.
boulderbum - look here:
http://www.cmdr-fire.co.uk/main/html...viewtopic&t=43
Apart from the front sight of my rifle, that's pretty much the way it is for newly-equipped (late 2004+) Marine units. Got a collar/throat assembly now as well (just got back from Iraq), but that's in the new set of pics that'll go up later.
Alright, pics are up. USMC0300, there's more on your thread, but here's the OTV with the CB pouches (the collar and throat protectors are the original PBI ones - note how the colour is almost identical):
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