They call it a 'bladder tank'.
Not all that many of my group around.
Thank you.
Sorry can’t help ya. These grunts were appreciated about as much as the signature gathering folks for today’s recall. At least they had a captain who cared about his troops and wasn’t out for himself.
The water in Vietnam was very putrid and unhealthy. They did not call it the “Brown Water Navy” for nothing. C-rats at the time had tablets to sterilize the water and it had to be boiled as well.
What kind of canteen was used in the Vietnam War?
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I just poked around the net and came up with nothing
You’ve finally found a question that will stump FReepers.
We got our water in 8” powder casings.
If the engineers weren’t paying attention, or if they wanted to get even for some imagined/perceived insult from the grunts, the chlorine would be so strong it’d make your eyes tear up.
Occasionally we'd (3 Troop sized units) get chopper (Chinook aka Shithook) dropped 500 gallon reusable bladder of clean fresh water to drink and eat our C rations with but other than that we lived on beer and soda water as the water was generally so unfit to drink and sometimes to even bathe in. Montezuma's revenge if you get the hint.
Lug-a-lugs?
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/p/2005/CMH_2/www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/vietnam/tactical/chapter5.htm
https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/keeping-the-troops-in-the-field-part-2-water-resupply/
Thank you for spelling the country name “Viet Nam” as it once was.
USMC grunt, III Corps, 1968-69
Never saw or heard of anything like this.
Never had water delivered to us in the bush.
Paddy water & pills. Impossible to “boil water for 20 minutes”. A quarter sized ball of C-4 would boil water for coffee or cocoa, though.
Hot chow flown out to us twice. C-rats the rest of the time while on an Op. Firebase chow was cooked and served on a tin (stainless steel) tray.
jerry cans? I think 20 liters. They weren’t dropped...Hueys set them down.
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Also found this: A third problem with water resupply to troops in the field was that if frequent resupply was required as was sometimes the case in the dry season, then water sometimes needed to be free-dropped to troops on the ground. Returning regularly to LZs where water could be air landed could limit patrol coverage of a target area. But free-dropping led to loss and also created the problem of backloading the delivery container.
Experiments conducted with jerry cans showed that few survived being dropped through a high jungle canopy. Those that did survive presented the problem of what to do with the empty jerry can. The solution to this problem was eventually found with the use of a US 3 gallon [13.6 litre] water container specially designed for free-dropping without rupturing. Once empty it could be folded and carried.[7] This device could be free dropped full of water from a height of 150 feet, through jungle canopy, with an 80 per cent success rate.[8] An infantry company taking 100 per cent water resupply required 50 of these containers per resupply [680 litres in total]. They were folded and carried out of operations for later re-use although they had been designed as a single use item.
They call it a 'bladder tank'.
Just found this article from 2011 where the Army was testing a new ‘water and fuel container system’ for airdrops.
They’re calling the bladder a ‘water blivet’.
https://www.army.mil/article/69457/army_tests_new_water_fuel_bladders_for_airdrop
I think you are looking for the word BLIVET...or it may be spelled BLIVIT
Lister Bags? Looked like a duffle bag but had a liner that kept water from leaking out.
later
Yes, they were called, “donkey dicks”. When I was pinned down for six days, nothing in nothing out; two helicopters shot down trying to medivac wounded they tried using them for water. Didn’t work, they were going so fast and so high that the few that made it into our Company area, exploded on impact. Then they tried artillery cannisters, they didn’t burst but less than half hit within our area."