Not for EFMB! I’m not even sure they still make those old angle head D-cell lights.
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They do indeed still make moonbeams. They are pretty sturdy and double as a blunt weapon.
So is there any rationale at all given for this?
You can use Maglite D as anestethic. Checkmate, headlamps 😉
Just went thru reclass @ Camp Shelby. We used headlamps entire time.
Reading makes life easier. Should have seen the EFMB. Ignore my last comment
You have my condolences for spending any time at Camp Shelby.
Funny. Surgeons and other docs wear “headlamps” all the time, but I guess not on land nav.
They still make you buy those D-Cells for Basic Training as of 2016. Gotta have a beam for fire guard.
EFMB is a fucking joke
Wasn’t a joke when I earned it . . .
Bwaaahaaa!
I’m pretty sure the military requires the D-cell flashlight just to keep business for LCI. They have a niche, but it’s an increasingly shrinking one.
I guess they haven’t heard about those crazy new headlamps capable of taking different color filters or just switching colors thanks to this revolutionary new LED technology?
I’m guessing they don’t allow mounting of optics on flintlocks carried on the land nav course either.
wow, what a bunch of BS… anything to make a joe out in the fields life harder.. fucking remf’s
The originals:
http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/Eveready-Flashlight-8257-2-Cell-Army-Green-Right-Angle-Boy-Scout-Light-with-Pot-Metal-Head-2D-1937
http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/USA-Lite-Flashlight-2-Cell-Loive-Drab-Right-Angle-Boy-Scout-Light-with-Small-Safety-Lock-Switch-and-Belt-Clip-2D-1941
http://www.stewartsmilitaryantiques.com/us-wwii-army-tl122a-flashlight.25492.archive.htm
The more modern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_MX991/U_Flashlight
it appears that someone in the EFMB program really does not like this type, more modern still:
http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/product/product.html?pid=168
All part of the game\ joke that is EFMB
Not at all surprised. Got bitched at by an ALC instructor for bringing a nice led flashlight with swivel head that forms an angle head because it wasn’t the old plastic POS. I opened the packing list that simply read “angle head flashlight.” I asked what part of this flashlight doesn’t fit that description?
Do you remember the brand of that swivel head LED flashlight?
Found it!
http://goinggear.com/rofis-jr20-cree-xp-g2-400-lumen-2-x-cr123-1-x-18650-rotating-angle-led-flashlight.html
Well at least the one that I was thinking about. Bought one years ago and gifted it away.
I think its the make training harder than real life idea? Of course that conflicts with train like you fight. Just remember you cant always fight like you train.
Please be reasonable and understand that if it wasn’t for absurd packing lists the companies that make these inadequate flashlights would have to finally get competitive and make a product people might actually want to buy for purposes other than a Vietnam re-enactment.
“This is keeping American manufacturing and jobs alive in the 21st century so that I can keep the pork, ermm, *investment*, coming into our state!”
-Some Senatory probably
Throw an LED conversion “bulb” in one and it isn’t half bad. Besides, when do packing lists for schools ever reflect field conditions for line units?
Bullshit, of course.
What happens if a smarter than average medic takes one of those Mini-Mags or Streamlights and sticks it on his helmet?
Someone beat you to the punch with this: https://www.niteize.com/product/Headband.asp
This is actually NiteIze’s first product, 27 years ago, and their claim to fame, so to speak.
I still have mine. OD tubular webbing with black elastic…
I still do too. Mine is red and about 22 years old.
This is exactly what I used when I earned my EFMB.
Because the best medicine is done one-handed
Can you use a “helmet light”? Since a “helmet light” is mounted to/ directly to a helmet and infers that it is an illumination device for a helmet….as opposed to a “head lamp/light” which infers that it is worn on your head directly. Just asking the question,…becouse there are no stupid questions, right?
I’d roll in there with a 90° light with 5x chemlights stuffed in the barrel and a Petzl STRIX (last flashlight I’ll ever buy) clipped to the fly of my pants.
Yup, I’m That Guy.
My vote for nefarious conspiracy is that this is a packing list holdout from before the days that Clothing Sales was selling us new uniforms every couple years…
Ah, the MX-991/U. Just keep jiggling or give it a smack when it keeps blinking out.
MEN LOOK AT http://WWW.FULTONINDOH.COM THEY HAVE MADE THEM SINCE WWII I STILL HAVE ONE. SINCE 75
While on PT runs during Basic Trainng/AIT my drill sergeants liked to grab them from Privates and smash them on the ground b/c they couldn’t keep in step. Lol
Man EFMB, needs some updates with current use of gear that’s being utilized out there, a medic for 20 years with CMB, and I feel that this prestigious badge event is always 5 years or even more – late than current TTPS that are being utilized in the current medical community in garrison and combat environments.