

Thats the theory but none of us do that as its waaay too uncomfortable.The FFD is usually taped onto the front of the battlevest on deployment in hot climates.New FFD's are the Israeli type and are too big to fit in that pocket anyway.Boots wrote:The trousers in the picture are of the "summer" variety. The field dressing is normally kept in a pocket on the smock, but during the summer when the smock isn't worn, it's kept in that front pocket.
jimmyduncan23 wrote:have found a desert shirt and smock will post pics when it arives!
CollectinSteve wrote:I just checked my trousers and all the details are the same EXCEPT mine lacks the right front waist pocket and some of the buttons are of the small Canadian type vs. the large ones seen on the genuine issue. The question I now have is if there's more than one version out there, including prototypes, or if mine is more commercial than I had hoped it was.
Steve
That's correct.For our Chad mission the troops wore normal temperate IP-DPM with desert bootsjimmyduncan23 wrote:
So is the only deployments that the desert used for is afghan and small numbers of officer on UN postings?
or are they issued on sudan or african missions?
Totally different material(Ripstop polycotton similar to the Tropical PCS LW Jacket)diffent pocket design.Large tricolour as standard and "Defence Forces Ireland " tab over the left chest pocket.jimmyduncan23 wrote:what is the diffrence or is it only the tags?
Alot of lad used to sew velcro on over the small tricolour as since 2008 we had gone back to wearing the large version overseas as a force protection measure.This led to lads having to remove the large version on return home as the kit came with the small version fitted in factory.We have now standardised this and all out shirts etc now have the large tricolour factory attached as standard.CollectinSteve wrote:Congrats on getting your shirt and a smock on top of that! I just received a smock and it is a brilliant piece of kit, for sure.
The smock I have appears to have a small Irish flag on the sleeve, but black velcro stitched over it the size of the larger flag as seen in the above pics. Anybody know what the story is there?
Steve
Totally different material(Ripstop polycotton similar to the Tropical PCS LW Jacket)diffent pocket design.Large tricolour as standard and "Defence Forces Ireland " tab over the left chest pocket.jimmyduncan23 wrote:what is the diffrence or is it only the tags?
Alot of lads used to sew velcro on over the small tricolour as since 2008 we had gone back to wearing the large version overseas as a force protection measure.This led to lads having to remove the large version on return home as the kit came with the small version fitted in factory.We have now standardised this and all our shirts etc now have the large tricolour factory attached before issue.CollectinSteve wrote:Congrats on getting your shirt and a smock on top of that! I just received a smock and it is a brilliant piece of kit, for sure.
The smock I have appears to have a small Irish flag on the sleeve, but black velcro stitched over it the size of the larger flag as seen in the above pics. Anybody know what the story is there?
Steve
jimmyduncan23 wrote:Any photos or refrence material for the new gear or somewere that has pics of all the diffrent issued gear?
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