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What you don't see on the top photo is the hard cardboard covers. The back is stapled to the binder section, and the front has a two-fold fabric hinge. The bottom pic is the current style with a coil binding. Each has a half-dozen pages of carbon paper in the back, a 1/4" grid and perforations to tear off used pages.

When CANFORME EOD Tp departed Kuwait City in Apr '91, we left our consumables behind with our US hosts. Cases of rations with the little questionaire survey. Jugs of various POL. We steered our friends to the bricks of plastic wrapped Field Message Pads (FMPs). 'Yes, First Sergeant you really want some of these for yourself. And the rest of you, how about those rolls of 2-ply toilet paper?' They are not interchangeable.