Battle Rattle: The Stuff a Soldier Carries (Battle Gear) | Hans Halberstadt

Battle Rattle: The Stuff a Soldier Carries (Battle Gear) | Hans Halberstadt | The Book a Soldier Carries

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	Battle Rattle: The Stuff a Soldier Carries (Battle Gear) Hans Halberstadt Zenith Press, 2006 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The slosh of water in a canteen, the rustle of a uniform, the jangle of extra clips of ammo, all the clinks and clanks of jostling packs of equipment?this is the soundtrack that accompanies fully loaded soldiers humping through the bush to their next assignment. Battle rattle is the stuff a soldier carries to get through the day, from mission-specific gear to general supplies. In short, what the soldiers on the ground affectionately call ?our crap.?
This book takes a close look at the commercial revolution in military clothing, packs, and equipment?soldiers buying from civilian companies instead of settling for government issue, customizing their gear to perfectly fit their needs and preferences. From boots and gloves to helmets and eyewear, from ponchos and packs to knives and rifles, Battle Rattle shows what the modern warfighter is using to fight the fight.

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Excellent Read & Great Photography

Ever wonder what all that stuff a soldier is wearing while watching news clips from Iraq and Afghanistan? It's all answered here in Battle Rattle. For one with no military experience, I was enthusiastic to learn about a soldier's gear and weaponry, how it's packed and minipulated in the field, and what goes vs. what stays. The book is tall with large color photographs so the reader can easily understand the function of each piece of equipment. As well, the book contains several informative combat stories as told by war vets. A great read!

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The Book a Soldier Carries

Every soldier who's every humped a ruck is going to love this book. Hans Halberstadt, along with fine contributions by Graves, Hilliard and others, has finally come out with a definitive work on the current evolutions of personal military equipment. Halberstadt's world class photography covers everything from boots to buckles and rucks to rifles, complimented by gear critiques from operators fresh from combat. Once a soldier, always a gear junky, and this book's a keeper.

The author knows about battle gear

I read this excellent book, here in Brazil.This book has forword, acknowledgments, five chapters, an afterword, a glossary, the resources and an index.There's not many details about almost any product, but I'm not a military.Even if you are a military, this book is for you too.About socks and boots, there's informations.About canteens there's informations.The photos of this excellent book are all colored photos.In fact, there's more space in this book to the photos, than to the text itself.For me,a civilian, this book is amazing, but for experts about battle gear, this book will be with less informations, than a profissional would would like to see.This book was printed(in China) in 2006.It isn't outdated in any sense.The quality of paper and cover is also excellent.
About pistols on combat, this book writes on page 106:"I used my pistol far more than my turret weapon or carbine, and it was quit effective.All you need to do is draw the weapon and hold it in front of most iraqis, and they will stop yelling and stard behaving themselves.If you point a .50 cal or M240 or an M4 at them they will just laugh at you - They know you won't pull the triger.They take the threat of a handgun much more seriously."
Here in Brazil there's a proverb:"Vivendo e aprendendo".On a translation to the english, we would have:"Living and learning".I knew three World War II veterans;all aren't alive today.All told me that in a war, handguns(pistols and revolvers) are next to useless.They saw friends and foes killed/wounded by artillery, air attacks,rifles and even submachine guns' fire.They never saw, in that war, any enemy or foe killed/wounded by pistols or revolvers.The last of these friends, died last month.All died not thinking that a military could put a pistol as more important than a rifle or even a hand grenade.Well, I'm 38 years old.Living and learning:pistols are now more important than ever before because, today the war isn't a conventional war, but a unregular war, against the nazislamism.

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Nice overview

As a guide to the gear modern warfighters carry into battle, this book provides a good overview. The author obviously knows his stuff and speaks intelligently and with authority about a subject most laymen, I am sure, take for granted and give little thought to. Mr. Halberstadt has an excellent grasp of the subtleties involved, and he makes it easy for the rest of us to understand.

Great book

A lof of good info on private purchase miltiary gear. Troops today seem to have a lot more freedom in that area than we did back in the 60's.

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