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Sergeant Miles

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Look at these fucking dope looking boots I just got!! They look and feel dope! Now they only need blessing by my MAN juice!

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Last night in a reenactors blog a guy posted that he's finally got a 1963 dated canteen and canteen cup but needed a 1963 cover. So I checked my Bag-O-Canteens for him. The centerpiece of my canteens is my 1979 Jim Beam WWII canteen decanter. It sits on my desk and looks cool.

I had one 2 older canteens. The GP & F Co (1943) one was in the Callaway Mills (1945) canteen cover. The Vollrath (1944) canteen has no cover.

All the others are just current standard issue 1- and 2-quart canteens.

The last item(s) is my trusty old LVB (Load Bearing Vest) This was an experimental issue when I was in Panama. Our unit was selected as the tropical test bed unit. We all go tissued these vests and wore them for a few months. The DoD team came back down and we did about 10 questioners on the vest. We all got to keep them when the test bed was done. If I remember right the inside tag reflects it's experimental status. The Vests did replace the LBE (Load Bearing Equipment) for a little while but when MOLLE came out in conjunction with the Riflemen's issue gear the LBV's fell to the wayside. Now with everything attaching to your body armor there is almost no need for the LBV. The exception to that is the 40mm grenade vest. I have one of those someplace as well.

The two canteens on my LBV are the ones I was issued at my first duty station (Fort Bragg). Because they had us put tape on the Pro-mask drinking port CIF would not take the caps back so I just bought new canteens and turned those in. I started running two canteen cups in the Gulf War so I could cook in one drink in the other. I added the canteen cup stove then also. Although the one in the photos is a replacement, my first one got to hot and warped.

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