I thought this was pretty cool. McNett Tactical has increased the versatility of their awesome towel design by offering it in a bright orange color and incorporating eight sewn grommets around the edge.
They have adopted the tagline, Towels are Tools™ and come up with multiple ways you can use them including emergency blankets, wind blocks, sun shades, cleaning cloths or slings.
www.mcnett.com/tactical/signal-towel#43500
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It’s about time the tactical world realized this. From Douglas Adams, “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”:
“A towel, it [the titular guide] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”
Beat me to it 🙂
Don’t Panic!
Well played. Sass that hoopy frood!
hmmm for use in combat *gasp* I KNOW WHAT THE ARMY CHOSE TO REPLACE THE M 4 ….THE TOWEL !!
Nice! This has “the Brit” written all over it. Well done guys!
As soon as someone that can mail to APO I will buy this product. It’s a great idea
Want now..
I checked these out at SHOT. I was really impressed. Very good quality from McNett and the reflective side was awesomely bright. I want one. been waiting since January for them to show up.
Better than the VS-17 panels I used when I was an MP.
Just in case you never saw the panels I was referring to.
http://www.armyproperty.com/nsn/8345-00-174-6865
And for 15 bucks cheaper 😉
It’s Gerald from McNett Tactical. The Signal Towel is currently available for purchase via OPSGEAR (http://www.opsgear.com/index/page/product/product_id/5998/). OPSGEAR will deliver to an APO. I hope that helps!
Thank you very much I just placed my order. I can’t wait till it gets here.
Multifunctional is always slick. Smart product.