PHOTO ESSAY ON HOW NOT TO BREAK IN YOUR B-3/A-2

[Grant]

 

[Silver Surfer]

thats the way to do it. hahahaha

 

[MikeyB-17]

Stone me. I don't fancy swimming very far in a B-3. That fleece must get bloody heavy when it's saturated with water.

 

[Roughwear]

Cold water treatment! I too would hate to be in the water wearing a B-3!

 

[regius]

is this a real old photo? what were they doing???

 

[regius]

is this a real old photo? what were they doing???

oh I know, they were looking up at the photographer, thinking, many years later, some jacket fanatic would want to know how to break in a B3 and A2! Let's do a forward thinking demonstration to screw with them!

 

[Technonut2112]

I can't imagine a soak in salt water doing anything good at all to leather...

 

[Monsoon]

is this a real old photo? what were they doing???

Water survival training.

 

[ADC]

The benefits of doing laundry in salt water
http://selectlaundry.com/juless-blog/the-power-of-salt-laundry-uses-for-salt

 

[Garylafortuna]

Might be enough air trapped in that wool to keep a body afloat. I'm confident that they are using those jackets because they forgot to bring along the Mae Wests.

 

[colekwok]

Oh my goodness! You are giving manufacturers new ideas of charging more....... "time worn, battle worn...."

 

[Skyhawk]

Oh..... So that's what happened to that disintegrating original USN M- 445 I had!