04-28-2005, 02:20 AM
Ave Los456,
Believe me, I know the lot of an infantryman, as for years I was an airborne paratrooper/infantryman serving as an 81mm mortar gunner in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles---Rakkasans), so I know firsthand the downsides to being a "grunt". I also know that although every situation can not be so, they do not always just sit out in the rain without some kind of shelter or body coverings. This is why soldiers are issued cloaks (or in the modern day, rain ponchos). The point I am trying to get across is not whether it is a situation in which they can or cannot use their cloak in the rain, but what they are going to do with their personal belongings if they are wrapped up in the cloak and the soldier finds it a situation in which he CAN use his cloak. It wouldn't make good sense to pull all of your belongings out of your cloak so that you could put it on in bad weather, and then have to hide the items under leaves somewhere to keep them dry, or run through the rain to put them in the wagon, etc., now would it? That's all I'm trying to point out. :wink:
Believe me, I know the lot of an infantryman, as for years I was an airborne paratrooper/infantryman serving as an 81mm mortar gunner in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles---Rakkasans), so I know firsthand the downsides to being a "grunt". I also know that although every situation can not be so, they do not always just sit out in the rain without some kind of shelter or body coverings. This is why soldiers are issued cloaks (or in the modern day, rain ponchos). The point I am trying to get across is not whether it is a situation in which they can or cannot use their cloak in the rain, but what they are going to do with their personal belongings if they are wrapped up in the cloak and the soldier finds it a situation in which he CAN use his cloak. It wouldn't make good sense to pull all of your belongings out of your cloak so that you could put it on in bad weather, and then have to hide the items under leaves somewhere to keep them dry, or run through the rain to put them in the wagon, etc., now would it? That's all I'm trying to point out. :wink:
Lucius Aurelius Metellus
a.k.a. Jeffrey L. Greene
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a.k.a. Jeffrey L. Greene
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