USGI ALICE Ruck Sack (Medium or Large)
- The Alice pack is the standard pack for US troops at East
Wind.
- You may use either the medium or the large, whichever suits
your fancy but it must be an ALICE pack.
- This is not only a matter of what is period correct but also
a practical matter. The PRC-25/77 radio fits into the radio pouch
on the ALICE pack thus an ALICE pack is quite useful in that
regard. Sure, lots of other stuff can hold a PRC-25/77 but given
that there is considerable expense being paid to convert East
Wind over to the correct radios we are specify that we want our
radios on rigid frame packs that were designed for such use.
You may or may not end up carting a PRC-25/77 around but either
way, we want everyone to be able to do so if needed.
- This does not mean that you cannot take another pack in addition
to the Alice pack, you just need to make sure that you have the
Alice pack as well.
- The supply section will have some stand alone radio carriers
for lighter patrols but they obviously get in the way of a ruck
sack when you go out for extended patrols so at some point, the
Ratelo is going to end up with a radio in his pack.
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