Brought this ammo can back from Iraq in 2003, I believe it may be a SG43/SGMT ammo can. Can anyone confirm??
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Brought this ammo can back from Iraq in 2003, I believe it may be a SG43/SGMT ammo can. Can anyone confirm??
I've never seen one like that, not even when I was there in 2003. I did mail home a couple of wooden grenade boxes we had emptied in country and used as seats in the back of the soft tops on convoy security (no up-armor back then:))...I filled them with cigars I bought in Kuwait on the way back to the ship, then placed in empty MRE boxes I think after the post office sergeant guy verified I wasn't mailing ordinance or contraband home. He didn't seem to care about where the cigars came from.
Some of Sadam's stash I guess? Straight from Cuba...
Here's a group advertising these "Type" of cans. Different by the handle and manufacture. 200-round 7.62x54 PK PKM ammo box - DEPOTMILITARY.COM
Just wondering as apparently the Somalis smoked them too.
Hopefully, the cigars were not copies made from camel *hit and anything that would burn.
Maxim ammunition box, according to Google. ebay says £39.00.
I thought cigars were supposed to taste, smell, and look like you were smoking a turd? Isn't that the whole point? to show everyone you are macho enough to smoke a turd? Now I'm trolling...apologies to all the wonderful and friendly cigar smokers. Only pun was intended:) I gave most of those away over the years...so likely many were so old as to be turd like when someone actually got around to smoking it.
SSgross-- Understood. No problem. I was in Iraq from the initial invasion through mid-2004. I found the Iraqis to be very enterprising indeed. I once found several selling bathtub gin in bottles with a picture of Al Capone with a Tommygun. Only God knows what was in that brew.