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Originally Posted by FOX_111
Hey MikeL, over there, how practical are dropleg holster? I figure they would be avoided because of the dust, but I keep seeing a lot in use.
What's your opinion on them, especially the open one?
When dismounted, is there a lot of laying prone and/or crawling or everybody stay on his feets most of the time?
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For the dropleg, depends on what you're doing. For just walking about KAF or the FOB they're fine or I guess if you're always gonna be in a veh. But for dismounted stuff, it's not the best. Most people find that it gets uncomfortable an chafes when walking a lot, plus the heat, sweat doesn't help. Most guys just put their pistol in a rifle mag pouch on their rig.
As for going prone, etc depends on the situation and area. From my own experiance I never went prone, just always took a knee. An there was enough cover to do that, ie low walls, ditches, fields, etc. For me personally I like just dropping to a knee since it's faster to get up an go again. But if theres poor cover or you're in the open I'd go prone; there was a few areas out there that if we got in a firefight I'd have to go prone to get cover/protection an just pop up to fire a few shots than back down again, etc.
Also, anytime that I dropped to a knee was just when the patrol stopped either to observe something, talk to locals, search people, etc I never got into a firefight while on patrol; least on the ones I went out on... only really shot at an mortared our Strong Point occasionly an do the IED thing.