[TML] Current USAF fleet was Re: CT Sup 7, Crews room sizes.

[Tom B]

>  deployed in the Middle East.  In fact, he gleefully steals some
>  current military slang (such as "battle rattle," for the noise
>  ceramic-plate-armor makes when you're hustling), for use in his second
>  book.

Tangent:

I'll bet you a Roman Legionaire in full panoply would rattle about the same.

When I wore green and snuck through bushes armed, my biggest bugaboo
was canteens. A full canteen doesn't make much noise. But a half-empty
one sloshes like a sonofagun. I'd have infinitely preferred one of
today's camel-back systems integral to my pack. That would have gotten
rid of some of the worst of the sloshing. Of course, the forestock on
the FN made a good clatter if you happened to whack it too (used to
good effect in drill, not so useful in the field).