L14A1 Carl Gustav 84mm Anti Tank

[Gil Boyd]

Cinders,
Yes, it was deemed that the weight was slightly heavier than other traditional containers worn by paratroopers, and therefore on Op jumps you never got the added 200 x 7.62 rounds to carry for the Platoon GPMG or the odd 2" mortar rounds.
I can reflect on the one and only time I got stuffed to jump with the Charlie G on a major BAOR exercise to impress the Russians who watched closedly what 16 PARA Brigade could bring to any future war, and clearly remember the "severe" tug on the lower part of the harness as I dropped it on the 15 ' rope, and can vaguely remember as the rope went taught, it flicked a fairly sensitve part of my anatomy through my lightweights and brought tears to my eyes for several minutes

Just an added bit of news off the press.......................PEGASUS is returning on the 30th November this year as the old original wartime insignia for the Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces, replacing insignia worn on the arm currently, which is the screaming budgie which thankfully dissapears into history where it should have gone years ago, when Gen Mike Jackson had a brain fart and used it from an SF unit based in Scotland!!

NEW 16 AIR ASSAULT BRIGADE FLASH | The Parachute Regiment