Two man tent - please ID

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

I am sorry to inform you that you are coming back to minus -29 and snow but you already know that.

I would expect nothing less. I looked the weather forecast for the week and we may be seeing -39°C next Friday night. But as long as they don't stop travel in January, we will be back here in the middle of January. I originally booked that one, but then got impatient and booked this one. Worst thing that can happen is we will only have had one great vacation.

[lincwel]

Robert
Like you we never had these as of 77 and zipped 2 groundsheets off the Lynx sides or to a couple of trees
I have 2 or 3 of these in a seacan at the museum which I will check next time I'm down there

[maple_leaf_eh]

I'm old enough to remember three versions of ground sheet.

- the oil cloth poncho of the 1950s
- a rubberized cloth poncho from the 1970s which universally stank like dog poop
- the zipper utility sheet from the 1980s and beyond. A significantly better hootchie maker. I still have a good one, and it has a bungee cord through the grommets on the long side.

Honorable (sic) mention to the US rubberized nylon poncho. It also stinks, but packs into something smaller than a loaf of raisin bread.

[Robert Bergeron]

Thanks Craig & Terry . I can confess to inheriting my father’s poncho from the 50 ´s but going straight to the 80’s issue ground sheet when i enlisted in 87 . They made good hootches but you needed trees . Keep your stories coming . Great read .

[rob love]

The date of codification (NSN assigned) was May of 1981. Also, the NSN on the tent case is incorrect. Makes ordering a new one by QM just that little bit harder.

[Jacques Rioux]

NSN numbers can be tricky. Off by 1 number and you just might get a boat anchor instead a box of glowstick. You think somebody in the supply chain would have asked why an armoured unit would need a boat anchor, but nooo.....

[rob love]

Our QM went 1 digit out on a checklist item for the LSVW and had a complete LSVW frame show up.


Did you keep the anchor? Should have worked fine on the side of an AVGP.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Jacques Rioux

NSN numbers can be tricky. Off by 1 number and you just might get a boat anchor instead a box of glowstick. You think somebody in the supply chain would have asked why an armoured unit would need a boat anchor, but nooo.....

I knew some guys who found the NSN for a CF18 and slipped it into a stack of QM requests for their reserve unit to order. The Item Manager called to play along with the joke. I never heard the ending.