Originally Posted by DTop

Flak jackets? What flak jackets? PJ's right, the remfs were the ones wearing them. The rest of us had to worry about staying on our feet any way we could for as long as we could. It came down to a simple fact that if you wore the flak jacket and the steel pot, you couldn't carry as much ammo or food because you were only physically able to carry a finite amount of weight for extnded periods of time. We would take the jackets and use them to try to reinforce the sandbags our foxholes for example. We improvised a lot. I remember a firebase I was at that used reclaimed miniguns on the perimeter. That sure cut back on uninvited guests.