I have a small collection of ALICE packs, 3 large olive (with a 4th desert tri-cam on the way) and 3 ( 2 woodland, 1 olive) (maybe 4, but its hiding somewhere very well) medium.
Apart from the one large and one medium which are rather used all have legible to just about legible descriptions, NSN's etc on the main packs.
My question is mainly aimed at the large packs as, from reading the issued idiots guide to use and assembly, and a youtube video on shrinking a medium pack
to an "assault" pack there should be a few strands of cord and d hooks inside for reducing the volume, however none of these appear to be present in
any of my packs, regardless of size, and no visible evidence of them having ever been fitted.
Was there a point in production where they stopped fitting internal the cord and d hooks for volume reduction, either as a result of saving a few pence
or realising nobody ever actually used said bits and redacted them from the design?
That or I've got a stash of ones that were super carefully sanitised of the volume reducing components.
Apart from the one large and one medium which are rather used all have legible to just about legible descriptions, NSN's etc on the main packs.
My question is mainly aimed at the large packs as, from reading the issued idiots guide to use and assembly, and a youtube video on shrinking a medium pack
to an "assault" pack there should be a few strands of cord and d hooks inside for reducing the volume, however none of these appear to be present in
any of my packs, regardless of size, and no visible evidence of them having ever been fitted.
Was there a point in production where they stopped fitting internal the cord and d hooks for volume reduction, either as a result of saving a few pence
or realising nobody ever actually used said bits and redacted them from the design?
That or I've got a stash of ones that were super carefully sanitised of the volume reducing components.