From: Dr. Bob Klein (drbob@troop111.org)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 14:42:21 CST
To expand on Jason's comments, you should include a variety of standard
plastic buckles (both sides) in your "possibles" kits. Hip belt buckles
are the most important, but other sizes can also break and be a real
inconvenience.
Jason A. Cotting wrote:
> John brings up a good point about pack buckles.
>
> My first day of Ranger training my first summer, one of the guys in our
> training crew steped on his hip buckle after setting his pack down in camp.
> Luckily, my training ranger had a spare. After witnessing that, I made it a
> point to tell my crews to buckle their hip belts when they set their packs
> down. There should be atleast one of these in your crew gear somewhere.
>
> Jason
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