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Can you be more specific? Are you talking the original Defender when it comes to that? As to Land Rover - The Series Rovers? Discos?

Yup... There are several plans out there for DIY versions.

Looks like a skottle grill with an edge, like the Tembo Tusk grill.

What years did you first start seeing all of this? I was slated to go to Ft. Leonard Wood for basic in 1987. I had just started an ROTC program and my CO there got that switched and had me sent to Ft. Knox. With the ROTC unit we did our PT and training in combat boots. When I arrived at Knox...

Intriguing... please explain.

Thanks. I hear ya, funds are spread rather thin around here as well, just about every spare penny goes on finishing this project. Had a couple hiccups with the Rover last spring/summer that depleted the entire years budget for it; basically, it came to a screeching halt. Hopefully what was to...

Military surplus rigs.... Do any of you look at "bringatrailer'? Several mikitary rigs - everything from jeeps to tanks have been listed lately.

Nice.... Are you kitting it out in period appropriate gear for displays and such? My Rover is a '63, but I'm kitting it out with gear that's contemporary to the early '60s and older.

I hear ya... and it's incredibly hard to get back into the whole PT thing. I really, really need to drop some pounds, so I've started off - again - doing baby PT. Care to share a pic or two of that lantern and box? Would love to have one of those. My father-in-law has a Coleman m1950 stove...

ROTFLMAO!!!! Had a friend that went into the Chair-force a few weeks before I went into the Army. Later we compared notes... those guys were on vacation.

I have pet squid... never heard him use the term, but 'tactical blanket' wouldn't surprise me. As to the chair-force... do they go outside long enough to even use one?

Was wondering that as well, but I was in the Army and it was always called a poncho liner. The DIs were sticklers when it came to proper kit references. You didn't dare refer to your rifle as a 'gun' or you paid by running around the barracks buildings chanting the rifle/gun ditty. Then I was...

Interesting... in all of my years of being in the military, helping train military/non-military people after that as well as collecting military surplus all these years, I never heard it called a "woobie" until at a gun show a few years back.

He was born the year I entered the Army. 'Woobie' must be a generational thing.

Same here.

Last one I saw was $70 and the liner was $30.

Don't think I'd worry much about that... none of it comes from boutique companies like Yeti. Basically, if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg they won't buy it - it won't stroke their egos.

Last time I wore a pair of Army issued BDUs was in 1989... still pick them up occasional to wear when hiking, camping and such.

Not sure why, but the heavy duty ponchos like I was issued have really, really gone up in price.

Have them - don't really care for them. Always keep going back to tge ALICE.