Looking for tips on cleaning military bags

[browningautorifle]

Well, I still have a hard time imagining buying an NBC bag since they weren't much of a boon when they were issued. They drifted out of service quickly when the day pack came to use. Now there's something we needed for 30 years...

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[Sentryduty]

NBC bag since they weren't much of a boon when they were issued.

I still have two kicking around, I actually liked them for everything expect carrying kit in the field, they were perfect for a shower kit, or for smuggling booze back into the biv site. As load carry equipment the shoulder straps were great, but the actual bag was more of a green pillowcase with a drawcord. The small pack as issued in 2005 wasn't bad, it was far more functional, and I have had a lot of patrol miles on mine, there were much better civilian pattern options around, but as something that was spawned from the Clothe The Soldier program, they didn't do too bad.

[browningautorifle]

a green pillowcase with a drawcord.

Interesting and correct analogy...I found you could fold your raingear and put it in and it was neat. Then stuff in a pair of glove liners and it was a ball. The straps were great compared to the small pack before it. The day pack was nice, of course the civvie packs were better but we couldn't legally carry them, specially as a Snr NCO setting the standard... The clothe the soldier scheme was done by a man that was in my first recruit platoon, he did all of it from Cadpat to ballistic eye wear, right to the boots and gloves. That was so long ago now...