• Danish Army New and More Gear for Soldiers

    Defence has purchased 76,000 pieces of equipment to improve the stock situation for sole in the three services. There are bought more of it, missing, and purchased new items that soldiers have asked.


  • Extended Cold Weather Clothing System PCU Mark Twight

    The Extended Cold Weather Clothing System is considered the first of the modern environmental clothing systems and developmental systems date from the early 1980s.


  • Soldiers warned on wearing defective glasses

    Eyeglasses that failed ballistic tests four years ago are available in Self Service Supply Centers, and the Army wants them off the shelves now. What's more, the Army is warning soldiers against wearing the inferior glasses.


  • Canadian armed Forces - Improved Environmental Clothing System (IECS)

    In September 1996, the Clothe the Soldier (CTS) project was formally approved with the mandate to acquire and issue, as expeditiously as possible, the 24 highest priority items of individual operational clothing and equipment within the Land Force.


  • Navy Medicine Authorized Minimal Medical Allowance List (AMMAL)

    The AMMAL represents the minimum quantity of medical equipment and supplies required to be maintained onboard to perform the medical department’s operational mission as defined in the Required Operational Capability/Projected Operational Environment (ROC/POE).



  • IFAK 2 Individual First Aid Kit II

    The Army is now issuing to Soldiers the more robust, more streamlined "Individual First Aid Kit II" as replacement for the older kit which was built inside an ammunition pouch for a Squad Automatic Weapon.


  • Blackhawk Pilot Gets A Parking Ticket

    The Blackhawk was part of the Army National Guard units called in to help rescue stranded victims of the Colorado flood. He had to park in the street, and he got ticketed for "facing the wrong way" and "parking in a no parking zone."


  • New Russian Army Uniforms

    In December 2012 the Russian Ministry of Defence of the presentation of the new uniforms. It is assumed that the updated uniform, 500 sets of which have already been tested in the Arctic, the southern regions of Siberia and Central Russia, the Russian army will go completely in 2014.



  • WWII Veteran gets Duffel Bag back after nearly 70 years

    William Kadar was fighting the Germans in France in November of 1944 when he became separated from his trusty sack...



  • Many Australian Soldiers Refuse to Use the Official Backpacks

    Soldiers have repeatedly warned the army the large packs were ill suited to carrying their 40 to 50 kilograms of equipment. They have complained of torn back muscles, dislocated shoulders and suffered spinal problems from using the official packs.