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Originally Posted by Brian McIlmoyle
We used to dream of having pockets to put our magazines in!
Our platoon Sargent used to cut pockets into our skin... to stuff the mags into.. and we had to fight bare chested.. so we could get at the mags.
And don't talk to me about the mags for the SMG.. if I told you where we had to carry those mags.. well your hair would curl..
of course.. men were harder then.. more accustomed to discomfort and hardship
But... if you tell kid's today that.. they won't believe you!
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More than one magazine? Luxury, our Sergeant used to kill us stone dead if we asked for more than one.
Seriously though there would often be a game of twenty questions when you drew a SMG and tried to get more than one magazine.
I'll have six magazines please. Oh really, how will you carry them? How about I use my pockets. Nope, can't have that those are only for rifle magazines. Then we'd say something like how about I tape them together and put one set on the weapon and the other two in non-standard pouches.
Then when the supply clerk was shocked into silence at such a mutinous suggestion you'd grab as many as you could and run.