Retro sneak peek - Driver’s vest

22F

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Cross posted from Farcebook.


A blast from the past, memories of my mis-spent youth.

Prior to the general issue of combat body armour, these vests from Combat Clothing Australia were very popular amongst vehicle crew (armoured and soft skin) to carry a minimal but useful fighting load with minimal bulk.

The vest carries a useful load of four rifle magazines, two shell dressings and a general purpose pouch for a jacket, rain coat or other miscellaneous equipment.
There is capability to mount a pistol belt on the bottom of the vest. Although I didn’t know too many who took that option.

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HighTower

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This looks like the slimmed out second cusin of the SFBJ M83.

Lots of applications where this could stil be useful.
 

shoobe01

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Not sure I know the term "Shell Dressing."

All these vests (e.g. Eagle Tac-1) had belt loops for things like LC2 or their national equivalent. I gather the reason was a nod to modularity. Conceptually, you replace the shoulder harness with the vest, but put whatever you'd normally put on the belt like you put there as necessary.

Yeah, I think most did not do that because the vest was supposed to replace not supplement the belt order.
 
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