C-Rats were the ****.

I wouldn't eat these MREs if you paid me to. How long have you been out plank?

29 years ago. 55 Bravo (Ammo Spec.) 60th Ordinance, 3rd Battalion, stationed in Germany at Ray Barracks. Same place Elvis was stationed.

Okay so lemme ask you, have you seen/used/interacted with the newer ACUs that we have now? If so which do you prefer? The ACUs or the BDUs?

All we had were BDU's and extreme cold weather gear. I did the REFORGER thing up in the mountains for a couple years. Peacetime stuff, long ago. I got out right before the Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, so that was after my time, but I believe they started circulating them into what we called the "New" Army. I graduated from boot at Tank Hill, Fort Jackson MI, in Feb '87 and was one of the last ones to graduate in the old WWII Barracks they had us in (they had bulldozers tearing those matchboxes down as we held the grad ceremony). New Army got A2's, which only fired 4 round bursts too at that time, we had the A1's... fully auto, so we made fun of them too. I fired Expert, btw, one of the 2 to get that honor at grad. and a Huey ride back to the barracks that day.

Aha ok I didn't know if you had seen the ACUs or worked with them or whatever. When I went through basic, we had the BDUs and once I got company-side I was issued the ACUs. At the time there were mixed feelings, at least from the soldiers I interacted with. I personally didn't give a **** either way, not like we had a choice anyways.

I don't have a backpack, I have a messenger bag p. :(

Are you an actual messenger or merely a hipster with a messenger bag? ;)

On the days I ferry between work and home.

Dell XPS L702X - biggest and heaviest laptop on the planet?
Laptop power supply - same?
Mouse Pad
Wireless mouse
Cell phone
WD Cloud drive with adapter
Pending files

Okay I don't use a back pack but have handbags. My current one has:

Keys
Burger king Coupons
Wallet
Glasses Clothes x3
Glasses Cleaner Spray
Anti Nausea Pills
Panadol
SD Card
USB
Pen
Lucas Papaw Ointment
Sunglasses
Muesli Bar
Lighter
Bobbypin
Revlon Colour Stay Lipcolour
Coral RoseDew Lipstick
Revlon Blushing Nude Lipstick
Revlon Cha Cha Cherry Lipstick
Revlon Wild Orchard Lipstick
Mac Captive Lipstick
Revlon Plumalicous Lipstick
Revlon Cocoa Bronze Lipstick
Water Bottle
JPS Blue Softs Ciggarettes (20s)

http://i.imgur.com/YCyfSMX.jpg

Shameless hipster bag officially ringing in. Today I picked up a smashing leather bag perfect for walking/biking to the office each morning and afternoon. (I don't own/need a car for anything.)

Call it a murse or a straight up purse - I'm over the moon to have this bag in tow.

Current contents:

• Nexus 7 tablet w bluetooth keyboard kickstand case
• Creative Zen X-Fi 32GB + SD audio/video player
• keys
• 1920s lady's brass pill bottle with ornamental peacock face
• Chomsky's On Anarchism
• the newly-published How Music Got Free

My server is up so the tablet and cell have 100,000+ audio tracks and several hundred documentary film / program archives at the ready. The Zen is a tried-and-true stand-by as its battery life is unparalleled.

^Nice.