What is this?

[DavidMcmillan]

A friend of mine passed away last year, and in helping his wife downsize, we found a number of these. He had a lot of milsurp stuff, but I don't think I have ever seen these before.

 

[surjimmy]

Maybe a battery pack

 

[Neanderthal]

It's a thingy. They are generally used in conjunction with doohickeys or whatchamacallits in order to assure that your thingamajig is secure.

 

[MacFromOK]

It's a thingy. They are generally used in conjunction with doohickeys or whatchamacallits in order to assure that your thingamajig is secure.

It actually appears to be a lace-up thingy.

Perhaps in case the contents of said thingy gain or lose weight during transport.

In other words... I have no clue either.

EDIT: @dlmcm: no offense intended, my condolences to your friend.

 

[xseler]

This site might come in handy.....

http://www.milspec.ca/radcodes/ancodes.html


(Maybe a bag for a cryptographic telegraph?)


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[lasher]

morons, it's a rooshun chastity belt

 

[MacFromOK]

morons, it's a rooshun chastity belt

Doesn't a lace-up version sound more like Polish (lol, or Aggie)...?

 

[xseler]

morons, it's a rooshun chastity belt

Them Rooshuns must be sirruss 'bout that chastity stuff!!

 

[lasher]

Doesn't a lace-up version sound more like Polish (lol, or Aggie)...?

LOL i stand corrected

 

[druryj]

It's (was) used to hold a spool of field telephone wire; from Korean War/Vietnam Era; probably been out of use for a good 25-30 years now, anyway. Connect to a field phone on one end; (CP) trot the line down the road to the other phone (OP) and connect. "Ringy-dingy, ringy dingy." "Hello? 10th Marines? Uh, could you guys like, shoot a whole buncha arty about 100 yds in front of me? Like, uh...right now? Please?"

* From same era as topographical map and compass, and plotting boards; since superseded by much more modern gizmos.