By now, our friends in Australia and New Zealand are well into their ANZAC Day activities, remembering those that served going back to the original ANZACs and World War One’s Battle of Gallipoli.
Join us now, as our thoughts turn to our Coalition partners from Australia and New Zealand, past and present.
Magpul hasn’t stopped with just the announcement of the new M-LOK attachment system at this year’s NRA Annual Meeting. They’re also offering limited edition Texas, Wyoming, and Boulder Airlift magazines, and their most popular Boulder Airlift artwork in shirt form, as well as new hats at their booth.
Additionally, they also announced the new QD Paraclip Adapter. Made from precision-cast Melonite finished steel, the Paraclip Adapter adapts standard QD sockets for use with Paraclips and other clip-in sling attachments.
If you can, stop and see Magpul at Booth #8467 at the NRA Annual Meeting to check out the new products and take advantage of the swag.
AWS’ DAGR Radio Pouch is a specially designed fold open pouch for the DAGR AN/PSN-13/13A GPS receiver. Designed for quick, one-handed operation, the DAGR pouch features internal straps for securely holding the receiver, and a front clear vinyl window for easy viewing.
Additional features include:
– Heavy duty snap closures
– Edge binding for durability
– Stiff reinforced body to hold shape
– Mil-Spec webbing/snaps
– MOLLE compatible
100% Berry/TAA compliant. Available only in MultiCam.
Today marks a different anniversary. In the early morning hours of 25 April, 1980 President Carter announced to a stunned world that the United States had undertaken an ambitious raid into Iran to liberate 52 American hostages held illegally at our Embassy in Tehran. Unfortunately, that raid, named Operation Eagle Claw was unsuccessful and we lost 8 American servicemen. Join me in remembering their sacrifice.
But, this failure was the watershed event that created, over the next several decades the world’s preeminent Special Operations capability; USSOCOM and it’s components. We wouldn’t be where are today with the determination of that fledgling task force. Join me in remembering those that paved the way.
I got a chance to check out a prototype of the new Thermal Dry Celliant wetsuit from Excel during last Fall’s Uber University. I was impressed.
Excel has adopted an entirely new next-to-skin material provided by Celliant which offers heat reflective properties; very important for wetsuits. It also helps to mitigate diver fatigue.
In addition to the new material story, Excel also is the exclusive offerer of Crocodile color from Arc’teryx.
These new suits also incorporate design features normally found in surf suits meaning more flexibility for these dive suits. Once again, very helpful for combat divers. They are offering these in 4 thicknesses – 3.5mil, 5.4 mil, 7.6 mil and 8.76 mil. Offered in full suits, shorties, farmer johns and hoods.
Made in USA in Hale Iwa, Hawaii. Available now.
Contact BigMike@excelwetsuits.com
Designed to offer quality IED training for those who don’t have access to established IED training lanes, the Platoon-Level IED Training Kit from Inert Products offers tripwire, photo cell, two-way radio, key fob, low metal content pressure plate, mercury switch and trembler switch. Additionally, the kit includes 100′ of wire and several IED mock ups.
The primary training tool is the penalty box that offers strobe or siren alarm and it runs on power from 6-12v.
Harris Communications is displaying their new Falcon III Multi-Channel Manpack radio.
At 14 lbs, it offers two identical channels (30-2500MHz, 25 KHz to 10 MHz Bandwidth, 20W SATCOM, 20W L-Band, 10W VHF/UHF LOS) with an optional third channel upgrade for future enhancements. Additionally, it supports the following waveforms: SINCGARS, SRW, DAMA, VULOS, IW, HAVEQUICK, MUOS, ANW2 and WNW.
The Falcon III utilizes current PRC-117G accessories and utilizes a single battery.
Available for order now with shipments coming in October.
LBT Inc has been designing and manufacturing specialized medical bags, pouches and packs since the very beginning. Shoot, one of the first pouches I purchased from LBT back in 91 was a medical pouch.
They recently realized that they currently produce over 100 products specifically for medical applications. At that point, they decided to update some of the items, introduce a few new ones and launch an LBT Medical line.
I had a chance to check out several of these items including military and civilian emergency medicine applications. Look for in-depth coverage soon on SSD.
