[SandRat]

What's that Sen Shillery?!!!! Our Troops don't have good gear????

[Riley]

It can be cumbersome when in the dining facility trying to handle a tray of food [,,.]

Fasten the chinstrap and hang it on your deuce gear. If you're not wearing your deuce gear, button it to a pocket. Annoying still, but it frees one's hands.

[Supernatural]

Looks like more than a ricochet to me. That is one tough helmet. However, my guess that the round that hit him was a standard AK47 round, which is much less powerful that the 7.62 round used in the comblock sniper rifle. That round is about as powerful as a .30-06 round and my guess is the helmet would have been penetrated if that round was used...unless the round had been fired from a great distance and had lost a lot of velocity.

[SW6906]

I hope Namsman Jr is wearing one of these..........

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[R. Scott]

For many soldiers, the new Army combat helmet is a necessary evil. It can be cumbersome when in the dining facility trying to handle a tray of food and it causes headaches and tension in the neck when worn on lengthy missions.

They should try wearing the old steel pot for a year.

Snyder still wears the same helmet, but he has since replaced the desert camouflage cover which was badly torn.

I am reminded of my last day in Viet Nam. My replacement was a Navy volunteer with no steel pot, weapon or flack jacket. I handed him my gear and he suddenly wanted to un-volunteer as he looked at the shredded camouflage cover, torn and blood stained flack jacked and the scarred stock on my M-14. The patches on the boat with the fresh spot paint also caused him some concern.
As my soon to be ex-crew members held him down I explained that the equipment had served me well and that the blood was mine and was very good blood. While they held him down I made my escape to the helicopter.