SAS L1A1 (but not really)

[Peter Laidler]

They also found that as they'd surround a bloke, shout and spit etc etc, one of them would quickly try to slice the sling with a seat-belt cutter thing. But cutting a nylon seat belt was easier that cutting a cotton weave sling. Remind me Gil......., after my time....... but did you use the clip-on plastic coated wire hawsers on L1A1's? They were used on SMG's, taken from the Arctic Warfare Mod packs because the seat belt cutters could slice those slings easily. They were quite short and it meant that the SMG couldn't be rotated through 180 degrees and fired back at you.

He's got a tie on his shirt too BAR. They'd have that throttling him within seconds. I think that photo was VERY early....., late '69 I'd say.