Originally posted by Danjanou:
[qb] Actually the 64, pattern ruck was designed to workl with the 64 pattern webbing (imagine that
) including removing the waterbottle and mess tin carriers from the web belt and attaching them to the ruck so it rode better on your back.
Of course on ATC the minute you got bumped you dropped the ruck and if you had your gear rigged the official way you lost your water bottle and the mess tin carrier which was a handy little pouch for all sorts of goodies (including mess tins I gues if you were new or stupid). So most of us left them attached to the belts.
The 84 web gear and ruck came out at the same time and in theory are supposed to be compatible.
Although the 64 did work well with it, and still does.
And before anybody laughs at the fact that I‘m old enough to remeber 64 pattern webbing, the first stuff I was actually issued was the 58‘ pattern complete with bren gun pouches!! [/qb]