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Making Things Easier....
No matter how senior officers might want to regard them, soldiers have always been an individualistic bunch. And despite how or what regulations are forced upon them, soldiers will always find a way of either making things easier for themselves or adding the personal touch to somehow make themselves stand out from their fellows. Anyone who has ever attended an international field exercise cannot have failed to notice how what are supposed to be set standard, uniformed forces, can still display so many minor differences between what each soldier wears or carries.
These personal touches can be manifest in many ways, from additional or non-regulation personal equipment to small variations in dress, quite apart from traditional regimental distinctions. The main objective always seems to be that either the individual retains some form of personal identity, has discovered some way of making themselves more comfortable, or of carrying out some task more easily. These touches are usually small as they cannot extend to drastic alterations in what each soldier wears or which weapons they can carry. Standardisation of clothing and equipment within organised combat forces has to be mandatory. The very appearance of any soldier can, for instance, be drastically altered by the wearing of a non-standard protective helmet or other form of head...See the full content of this document
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