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19 March 2024 Garand Picture of the Day
PFC Joseph Kunka cools his feet in a helmet filled with water; 19 August 1950.
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Helmet
The all-purpose steel pot: shaving basin, stool to sit on while eating in the field, cooking pot... oh yeah, and head protection. Even the Kraut kind would serve 
Real men measure once and cut.
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The all-purpose steel pot: shaving basin, stool to sit on while eating in the field, cooking pot... oh yeah, and head protection. Even the Kraut kind would serve
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also Bucket and thunder mug
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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The German
helmet has holes in it...so no good for a bucket.
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The
German helmet has holes in it...so no good for a bucket.
The liner is also a part of the helmet and is not removable. The reason the GI helmet could be used as it was was because the helmet and liner were two separate pieces. No other helmet ever produced was a two part design.
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Originally Posted by
eb in oregon
the helmet and liner were two separate pieces.
I remember having my hair deliberately short in hot weather so I could wash my head in a helmet full of water...long ago now.
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I remember having my hair deliberately short in hot weather so I could wash my head in a helmet full of water...long ago now.
I sported a No. 2 most my 24 years when in the field.
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Originally Posted by
eb in oregon
a No. 2
Easy to clean and dress wounds, keep watch for ticks. I still have mine short, mostly because the wife like it that way strangely enough.
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I remember having my hair deliberately short in hot weather so I could wash my head in a helmet full of water...long ago now.
Always a No. 2 for me too. Remember when we went to Kevlar helmets and were told to stop using our helmets for wash basins and cooking pots?
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Sapper740
when we went to Kevlar
I do remember getting mine issued down here at NAVY stores in Esquimalt. By then I was doing reserve battle school and out of the battalion line so I never got that warning... I just didn't do it. wouldn't work any more anyway...
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