shoo24 said:
Now if we could just figure out a way to fit that thing into an SV-2...
That's kind of what we used to say about the Filipino Negritos from J.E.S.T. School in the P.I. While small in stature, they were large in E&E knowledge and capabilities. Still a tad too big for an SV-2, however, so maybe they might fit .... in the seat pan?
If you go down in Gomer-Land, we tongue-in-cheek said the best thing you could have going for you was one of the little Negrito J.E.S.T. instructor/scouts with his BOLO knife --- and I'll bring along the extra battery for the PRC-90.
Do you have time for a
..... Semi-Sea Story (Sea story-lite?? A land based version) side note: see the guy on the left? That is a close approximation of how they looked in J.E.S.T. Very little changed over the centuries with a slight addition of surplus GI webgear. See the "BOLO" style knife/machete he's got?? The Army found them so effective in the jungle that after the early 20th century Philippine experience, they designed several versions of our own -- all basically a copy of the original Philippine Bolo.
I still have mine displayed in my library. Our "donation to the cause" was to buy one of the Bolos from our instructor/scout after our week in the jungle was up -- it was expected, helped supplement the small stipend UNCLE paid them, and was a tangible way of saying "
maraming salamat." The Negrito scouts made the BOLOS out of old leaf springs from leftover canabalized WW2 jeeps --- wood sheaths, as leather was too hard to come by and would rot too quickly in the jungle steam. The scouts were great little guys --- tigers --- some of the instructors had been Guerillas and fought the Japanese in the Philippines during the occupation. Some were in their 50's and 60's and looked 30.