Comments on: UPDATED: SEALs Wearing New High-Speed Fighting Threads

By: emmanuel yankah

emmanuel yankah — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:25:20 +0000

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By: Gallogls

Gallogls — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:21:49 +0000

The son says the Marines are wearing this now in Iraq and my Brother says his son is wearing them now with 6 Mars looks like it’s caught on!

By: RoadDoc

RoadDoc — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:14:47 +0000

You have to be kidding me. This thing is c-r-a-p. I spent 18 years as a medic and can tell you a handful fo things about tourniquets:
1. 97% of them aren’t tourniquets — they’re merely really tight pressure dressings. If the arterial flow goes through, it ain’t a tourniquet.
2. There’s no way in hell you’re getting enough pinpoint pressure on an artery to do anything close to a proper tourniquet. We’d use a block of heavy gauze or a folded leather glove over an artery directly above the wound, and then crank the snot out of it with a windlass to get enough pressure to stop blood loss. You think a beefy shoelace threaded into a BDU is even close? Sure.
3. Hot, hot, hot.
4. Blackhawk needs to get it’s head out of its backend and go back to what works — solid gear for the field operator that’s simple, innovative, and affordable.

By: ROCKET

ROCKET — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:37:17 +0000

Well Boss, can’t say I did’t send up a flare first : ) My input was simple, they had been “removed from active ops too long” and were far away from their original, simple, smart lightweight, breathable and fast drying ops loadout vest. Though the Serpa is a decent rig.

By: gruntdoc91

gruntdoc91 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:19:29 +0000

hey fidelis that new camo we have sucks whatever REMF came up with that needs a good front back go session. p.s. youre not the only one who got mad at me i have marines in the family.this weekend isnt going to go good for me. ;)

By: unmannedanimal

unmannedanimal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:48:57 +0000

somewhat disappointed that this isn’t a post about tech transfer to marine biology, with a press photo of a harbor pup on the nose of the concorde in coveralls sipping a daiquiri.
i remember seeing PR about this tourniquet system last fall. i’ve had a tourniquet applied by an army medic, and it’s hard to imagine the precision and control required for success obviated by a drawstring on steroids. are the tourniquets a ‘liner’ layer beneath the suit or are they housed between layers of the suit? i can see complications with both. how adjustable (along the axis of the limb) are they?

By: tontochoc

tontochoc — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:44:41 +0000

Christian, how’s the heat retention issue. Nylon uniforms are a bitch for sweat retention and chafing. Jungle warafre sucks but hey it happens. One hundred percent cotton or 95% with 5% kevlar/nomex which seals wehen exposed to flame used to be the go.

By: bdwilcox

bdwilcox — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:00:10 +0000

I wonder if they make a swishing sound when you run in them? Uniforms by Sears ToughSkins.

By: joe met

joe met — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:58:09 +0000

Looks better than the Army’s starship trooper uni.

By: Fidelis

Fidelis — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:12:08 +0000

@ gruntdoc91 : You’re right, they don’t have time to waste on looking stylish like the army of dumb.
100% functional, 0% pretty boy.
BTW, hows that new camo working out for you?