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Geesh you young whipper snappers! Why, back in my day we didn't have any chem-lights;
we had to use fuse cord and only the old man had a match.
An' that was only for important maneuvers, not just this ever' day stuff......
.mumble... mumble... kids today... mumble... mumble....
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Sorry all, and thanks for serving in the armed forces---
Steve
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I think we may have done something similar. I recall putting more than one light of antenna's. I drove a command warrior and as we had two antenna's, i think we put lights on both to indicate command.
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Bish We would attach ours straight to the antenna. On big ops there would be different colours for different companies.
We would attach ours straight to the antenna. On big ops there would be different colours for different companies.
Yes, my old Mech unit did that too. IIRC, the color of the Chem lights was to designate companies and the number of lights to designate platoons. 1 for 1st PLT, 2 for 2nd PLT, etc.
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That makes sense.
Thanks
HeavyArtybbrowniii beat me to the punch.
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The bottle is taped to the antenna as a holder for a chem-lite (glow stick). A chem-lite is placed in the bottle at night to serve as a marker so it can be easily identified by the guys on the ground. Sometimes it is a visible chem-lite, sometimes an IR chem-lite.
bbrowniii beat me to the punch.
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We would put IR glow sticks in them at night to aid friendlies recognizing other fiendly vehicles.
I remember seeing gun taped to antennae on at least Canadian armour overseas water bottles.
I always forgot to ask then, but why would they have done that?
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