MOAR Gear: This Time, Meatbeater Covers AKA Gloves for Combat
Best Protect Your Hands, You Only Get Two.
Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes of Ye Olde Stack!
OK
Per Concerned American over at WRSA (literally the third website I check on with my morning cuppa), well CA asked that after the helmet write up that I cover gloves so to speak.
Not a bad Idea IMO
Now, quick warning:
I’m going to make this one a subscription thang halfway in. Primarily ‘cos I need the geld, and secondly, I need to figure out how it works on this platform. I mean what the hell? The helmet poast was worth it’s weight in gold from the feedback I got.
In fact I got DMs asking why I didn’t monetize it?
To me, the sharing of intel and knowledge is like… I dunno, for pee-pul like me? It’s a public service especially in light of just how fucked up things are going to get. There’s going to be a few folks out there, the “quick and the dead”, and the “ready and the not-so-fucking-ready”, and that corresponds to the previous aforementioned Q&D label.
If you ain’t ready, well… you best get fucking ready Aye?
So, Let us start in. This’s primarily from my own hard-earned experience. So make of it what you will, YMMV.
So
Covers for Ye Olde Dick Skinners
Or more commonly called: Gloves
Now, I’ll go over Mine first. My first pair that I wore for the majority of my time in Iraq and Afghanistan were a pair of Hatch “Operator” Nomex gloves in desert tan:
Ok… back when I got mine (a looong minute ago as you can see by the wear and tear) in Baghdad in 2004. Made of Nomex. Which is a FIRE RESISTANT (for a short period of time) fabric, not repeat NOT FIRE-PROOF. As you can obviously see, There’s a HUGE amount of carbon buildup from various firefights, and yeah, they’ve had the shit washed out of them too many times to count. That shit still on there? Perma-stained IMO. In fact if you look closely, on the right glove, you can see where the leather back-of-the-thumb patch of leather is worn away from me wiping the sweat out of my eyes when shit got ‘dicey’.
Now, as I said before and NEEDS REPEATING:
Nomex is FIRE RESISTANT (for a short period of time) fabric, not repeat NOT FIRE-PROOF.
Again for the slow kids at the back
Nomex Fabric of ALL types (to include the cop jumpsuits that they are oh so fond of on their SWAT Teams) is:
FIRE RESISTANT (for a short period of time)
NOT FIRE-PROOF
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