Hijack Warning - several of my buttons got mashed



Heh - gotta pile on to this: DEAD WRONG - at least back in the stone age. And modern SF. Me: Officer 23 years active duty; long retired. Youngest son: Enlisted SF (now medicaled out). Middle son: Enlisted USAR Combat Engineer, and they did not go past basic (good) land navigation up to this point in his service. I don't miss my objectives and "close" in an unsupported night attack is not close enough. 'nuff said.

I (still) use a Silva Ranger; always have. In IOBC, I spent one day with the lensatic and dashed off to Ranger Joe's for the first of what (so far) has been 3 of those over the decades. My sole issue with those has been a bubble sometimes appearing (why I've gone thru 2 so far).

Radium paint on, not tritium in the lensatic, IIRC. Same as an analog watch used to be (photoluminescent mostly nowadays on watches). ETA - the lensatics may be photoluminescent also - IDK. But not tritium.

Meh, seriously, don't anyone take this harshly, as it's not intended to be, but I surely do not agree with blanket bashing milsurp gear or the soldiers who use it. It depends. (BTW, scouts are even harder on gear than soldiers, believe it or not). Discerning users with hands-on experience can really pluck gems out of a lot of milsurp gear. Some of it is quite superior to anything equivalent off the shelf commercially. Some of it is terrible for even its intended purpose (Large ALICE ruck comes to mind <shudder>). I speak from real world usage of all sorts of gear (I have too much...), including really good commercial stuff from underwear to internal and external frame packs.

I cannot recall a time that I used(use) purely milsurp or purely commercial - even on active duty.

Whew! Got that off my chest!