Boonie Cover

[SarDragon]

I love the idea, the only problem I see (I know, I have to be a party-pooper) is that the goals of absorbing sunlight to create electricity and reflecting sunlight in order to be highly visible are both mutually incompatible goals

Not a problem at all. Different wavelengths involved. The orange light gets reflected; whatever's left makes electricity.

Given that orange is 1/7 of the traditional ROYGBIV spectrum, 6/7 is left for generation, in addition to all the ultraviolet and infrared that the solar cells might be sensitive to. Win - win.

[BillB]

However if you consider the coefficent of ultraviolet light following solar winds of ions, the negative percentage of infrared multiplys the effective value of ohms law. This effect would provide a less than optium amperage or voltage.  What does all this mean?  Darned if I know, I just thought I'd add to bovine waste material.

[JohnKachenmeister]

So....

That's why the WORLD CHAMPION FLORIDA GATOR FOOTBALL TEAM wears orange helmets!!!

CHOMP, CHOMP!

Florida Gators:  41

Ohio State Buckeyes:  14

It must work!  Theory validated in practice!  Ain't science wonderful?

What in the heck is a buckeye anyway?  Some kind of a hairless nut?

[lordmonar]

However if you consider the coefficent of ultraviolet light following solar winds of ions, the negative percentage of infrared multiplys the effective value of ohms law. This effect would provide a less than optium amperage or voltage.  What does all this mean?  Darned if I know, I just thought I'd add to bovine waste material.

OOOOHHH you said coefficent! 

[BillB]

type on  coefficient  maybe I should have said coed

[lordmonar]

type on  coefficient  maybe I should have said coed

I like those too!

[flyerthom]

"What in the heck is a buckeye anyway?  Some kind of a hairless nut?"


A chestnut. Often roasted over an open fire at the holidays.

Not that I'd have any experience like this as a child but supposedly they fly really good from a wrist rocket 

[JohnKachenmeister]

The buckeyes I was talking about got "Roasted" last night in Arizona.

[Major Lord]

Mine is my old jungle hat from when I was in Honduras with the Army.  It isn't camo., it's solid OD green.  I also have my subdued oak leaf on it.  If you're gonna violate a regulation, be proud of it!

Chicks dig guys who break the rules.

When I spent some time enjoying  lovely Honduras  ( ever stay at the Maya hotel?) I was [darn] glad to have a boonie hat and duct tape. There are so many things in the jungle there to crawl into your clothes and bite you on the ass  ( Oooh -Rainbows!-South Park reference for Cadets only) you are wise to tape your sleeves and pants, as shake the ticks and other critters off your boonie hat before they smell your blood. A boonie hat is safety gear, like a motorcycle helmet. Thats my story and I am sticking to it!

[O-Rex]

20 years ago the Maya Hotel in Honduras was so G.I-laden, especially Intel and Spec-Ops, they could have just put a PX/BX "Shopette" in their lobby.  If you wanted to really be low-key, you stayed at the Alameda a few blocks away.  Back then, green boonie-hats and slant-pocket jungle fatigues (by far the best combat uniform ever) were the uniform-of-the-day.

CAP Boonie-Hats?  if you and the rest of your team are someplace where you really need to where them, chances are there's nobody around to tell you different.

[JohnKachenmeister]

Mine is my old jungle hat from when I was in Honduras with the Army.  It isn't camo., it's solid OD green.  I also have my subdued oak leaf on it.  If you're gonna violate a regulation, be proud of it!

Chicks dig guys who break the rules.

When I spent some time enjoying  lovely Honduras  ( ever stay at the Maya hotel?) I was [darn] glad to have a boonie hat and duct tape. There are so many things in the jungle there to crawl into your clothes and bite you on the ass  ( Oooh -Rainbows!-South Park reference for Cadets only) you are wise to tape your sleeves and pants, as shake the ticks and other critters off your boonie hat before they smell your blood. A boonie hat is safety gear, like a motorcycle helmet. Thats my story and I am sticking to it!

Never made it to the Hotel Maya.  I was stuck in the Departmento de Yoro at Camp Oso Grande.  My idea of a good time was to set up some kind of meeting down at the airbase at Palmerola (What is now caled Soto Cana).  There they had club hooches, 3 hots a day, and FLUSH TOILETS!  (At Oso Grande, we used cut-in-half 55-gallon drums, and every day we hired Honduran "S--t-Burners" to put diesel fuel in them and burn the stuff off.)

Half the fun of going to Palmerola was listening to the Air Force weenies complain.  We thought Palmerola was "Luxury!"

One of our MP's hired a Honduran woman to wash his uniforms.  They used to lay the uniforms out in the sun to dry them.  A scorpion made his home inside the MP's pants, and when the pants were folded the scorpion was trapped inside.  The MP found it about 0-Dark-30 when he was getting dressed for duty and got stung in a VERY tender part of the male anatomy!

[Major Lord]

The Maya is still the spec/op/spook center for Latin America. Lots of human type scorpions there. General conditions around Honduras have improved somewhat, but the bugs still own the place.

While working in New Orleans during Katrina op's, I quickly found that a boonie hat was once again the preferred cover of the day. Great for bugs, sun, rain, etc. especially in the barren wilderness around Plauqemins (sp?)Parish. (obviously I was not there with CAP) It is also good cover for wearing a bug net over. Admittedly, you look like a complete geek, but function before form! I keep a woodland boonie cover in my go-bag ( No on to complain about to about 39-1 violations in god-lost-his shoes California.) I have not been running missions for a while, since I picked up a case of east australian wombat death syndrome or some other similar bug in New Orleans. Probably some bad crawfish etouffe' or maybe just the drinking water...

If we want to look cool, we should switch to berets, so we can be an "elite force" just like everyone else... didn't one of the chaplains on this list say we should break the rules to show that we are wild and untamed life-takers and heart-breakers ( or words to that effect)

[floridacyclist]

I didn't use my "regulation" boonie hat in NOLA or MS, but my old floppy hat was still much-appreciated for many of the same reasons.



I'm the one with the mustache.

[Hawk200]

If we want to look cool, we should switch to berets, so we can be an "elite force" just like everyone else... didn't one of the chaplains on this list say we should break the rules to show that we are wild and untamed life-takers and heart-breakers ( or words to that effect)

Oh, God, no! Please! I hate berets. Used to think they were really cool, until I had to wear one. They may look sharp if worn properly, but it is not a practical piece of head gear for field work.

I still get jumped at drill for wearing my PC instead of my beret. It's just easier, and the bill does block the sun. And I can put it on with one hand, and not have to make adjustments to it.

[lordmonar]

If we want to look cool, we should switch to berets, so we can be an "elite force" just like everyone else... didn't one of the chaplains on this list say we should break the rules to show that we are wild and untamed life-takers and heart-breakers ( or words to that effect)

Oh, God, no! Please! I hate berets. Used to think they were really cool, until I had to wear one. They may look sharp if worn properly, but it is not a practical piece of head gear for field work.

He said cool not practical!

[Major Lord]

Hey, no argument from me! I don't  want a french little girls hat that needs to be shaved more often than Janet Reno's legs and chin!

[lordmonar]

Hey, no argument from me! I don't  want a french little girls hat that needs to be shaved more often than Janet Reno's legs and chin!

Hey!  I'm eating here! 

[Hawk200]

If we want to look cool, we should switch to berets, so we can be an "elite force" just like everyone else... didn't one of the chaplains on this list say we should break the rules to show that we are wild and untamed life-takers and heart-breakers ( or words to that effect)

Oh, God, no! Please! I hate berets. Used to think they were really cool, until I had to wear one. They may look sharp if worn properly, but it is not a practical piece of head gear for field work.

He said cool not practical!

Oh, OK. Let's not push the "cool" factor too much though. Some people might get ideas.

[JohnKachenmeister]

When the Army went to the black berets for everybody, the Marines started calling the Army beret the "Monica Lewinsky Hat."

[Hawk200]

When the Army went to the black berets for everybody, the Marines started calling the Army beret the "Monica Lewinsky Hat."

Great  . Yet another reason the ditch the thing.