Shellback Tactical shared this video review with us of their Banshee Rifle Plate Carrier. It’s a great wrap up of the design. It features ample PALS real estate on the front and back as well as a removable cummerbund with interior and exterior PALS for side plates as well as a drag handle.
Available in Black, Coyote Tan, Ranger Green, A-TACS and MultiCam at a great price from shellbacktactical.com.
The photo is a little tongue-in-cheek, but the thought process behind it is a very serious part of SOTECH’s innovation process. As an avid military historian, SOTECH’s CEO Jim Cragg encourages his staff to study weapon development and soldier load carriage throughout history to spur the creative juices in developing SOTECH’s designs for the Future Warrior and Future Enforcer. Pictured above, Jim attends the week long U.S. Cavalry School on the Little Big Horn battlefield. The school teaches riding with period equipment, cavalry tactics, and use of period weapons, as well as a mounted military history staff ride. As one point of interest, in 1876 most troopers of the 7th Cavalry didn’t have a quick-draw ammunition belt, so they put their bullets in piles on the ground, many leaving them behind when ordered to fall back. In a history repeating itself moment, LA Sheriff’s Dept SEB Sniper Cadre approached SOTECH in 2001 asking for an ammunition harness because they had set their rifle ammo on the ground in position and found it cumbersome to police up their rounds and radio when ordered to shift positions. Some things never change. Jim is pictured testing SOTECH’s new VIPER plate carrier system while Lt. W.W. Cook (Ron Glasgow) and a trooper (Gary Newton) are sporting Hellcat kits.
Check out www.USCavarlySchool.com if you are interested in experiencing the way our forefathers fought. The school culminates with a reenactment on the yearly anniversary of Custer’s Last Stand. And yes, Jim was ingloriously scalped by a Native American warrior with a Nerf war club.
Tennier Industries Inc specializes in the manufacturing of extreme cold weather systems and other life support systems, including moisture-vapor-permeable waterproof seam sealed uniforms and sleep systems. For over 30 years Tennier has provided Berry Amendment compliant tactical items to all four Department of Defense armed services, as well as the Coast Guard and Forest Service.
Tennier manufactures APECS, Gen II and III ECWCS, The Four and Five Part Modular Sleep System, the 3 Season Sleep System and the Rapid Fielding Modular Initiative Sleep System as well as the Forest Service Sleeping System. In fact, they have been so successful, they have become the de facto sole source provider for military sleep systems. Furthermore, they were the first company in the textile and clothing supply sector for DoD to receive the ISO 9001:2000 Quality certification. You could say, Tennier Industries exists specifically to support the US military and US Military exclusively.
You want Authentic military gear. All Tennier products are available via GSA. In some cases, their products are also available for sale through select military outfitters such as US Cav.
Who doesn’t have a use for a stencil featuring a Gadsden flag-style logo? Mil-Spec Monkey recently introduced one as well as a T-shirt sporting the logo. It’s a bit more stylized than the original but still a great tribute. The stencil is made of 14 mil Mylar with an actual art size of about 8″ x 4.75″.
This is a weird one. Some of you may know William Abbate’s name because he is Jessie Abbate’s ex-husband. Jessie, as I’m sure you know is a world class shooter.
According to an article published late last week in the GA Daily News, William Abbate has been charged with “child molestation, aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, sexual exploitation of children and statutory rape.” The victim is a 15-year-old girl on a shooting team.
Photo - SSG Brandon Little, 32nd AAMDC PAO
They quoted ADS employee Brad Daum who recently retired from the Army as a Patriot fire control enhanced operator/maintainer, “This truck is a mobile tool truck and basically we bring it to the motor pools and provide tools to the Soldiers,†said Daum, driver and tool truck representative for the Maintenance, Repair and Operations for ADS, Inc. “We have warranties and door-to-door service. And if it’s something we don’t have, we’ll go out of our way to get it for you.â€
SSG Rosa M. Moncada, supply NCOIC for HHB, 32d Army Air and Missile Defense Command went on to explain, “Ordering certain components [the basic way] can take up to a month.†With the MRO solutions truck, units request a tool, receive it immediately, and pay for it with a GPC. This is the way most civilian maintenance facilities work.
I’m a graduate of DLI, but that was way back in the dark ages. It’s amazing what they’ve done over the last few years in the way of outreach for deploying forces. No longer is language training just the purview of Intel and SOF personnel. This video is about the Eagle Language Training Center at Fort Campbell designed to provide 16-week intensive language training courses to combat arms Soldiers.
Eagle Language Training Center from DLIFLC on Vimeo.
What’s really cool about the Eagle Language Training Center is that it offers a Cultural Immersion Center where portions of the training environment were prepared by our friends at Military Wraps. It includes a market area, common area, and a Government office which allows students to interact in a realistic environment complete with role players to practice their new language skills. Props from Tatitlek, add the finishing touches.
A BIG thanks to our friends at the French website MultiCam Insider for this info. “The German firm Leo Köhler is entering the MultiCam market with three new products (guerilla vest, combat shirt and pants).” Interestingly, they are marketed as KSK items and can be found at ASMC.de.
