Info needed: Cleaning a Camouflage net help needed

[Ed Storey]

The Arctic Nets seemed quite popular in Kandahar. This was was my office and wheels for five weeks in April-May 2011. Check out the cargo in the back of the M Gator.

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[Ed Storey]

Here are a few images from FOB MSG in May 2011 showing net usage and the tourist who took the photographs.

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[Ed Storey]

I don't know how important these nets were to the Crown but I did work a 'gentleman's agreement' for one of the arctic nets which was being used to screen a rec area and had it shipped back to Canada with all of the other Op KEEPSAKE museum material. The idea was to save one that had actually been used in theatre for a rec area which I thought perhaps in 50 or 100 years from now it might be kind of significant. I wasn't privileged enough to have access to the material or have a say in its distribution once the three sea containers of collected stuff got back to Canada so unfortunately I don't have any idea which museum got it or what they did with it once it landed on their lap.

[Michael R.]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I don't know how important these nets were to the Crown but I did work a 'gentleman's agreement' for one of the arctic nets which was being used to screen a rec area and had it shipped back to Canada with all of the other Op KEEPSAKE museum material. The idea was to save one that had actually been used in theatre . . .

Cool 😎

It looks like there are at least two now, Robin has one.

That is it! I am never washing mine. Who knows... one day someone might track the serial number down and find it on a shipping document showing it being returned from away.

[rob love]

I spent considerable time cleaning, and conditioning tools, tool kits, and other materials for return to the supply system during my last tour in KAF. Some of the stuff was sold off in theater, and some of it was put into sea containers and sent home. Imagine my surprise to see some of those items about two or three years later up for sale on CADC, still with the silver tags attached. The costs of returning the materials to Canada had to have been outrageous.

[Matthew P]

Wait there were Canadians in KAF Next one of you is going to tell me you were stationed at Graceland.

Matt
(2 years civilian HVAC tech out there)

[Ed Storey]

Rob, you looked like you were having so much fun cleaning the tools when I visited you in KAF. Sadly I could not convince you to pose for a photo.

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[rob love]

I cannot count how many tool kits I checked and re-assembled. Veh tech static, vehicle tech field, mat tech, weapons tech, metric supplements, veh tech heavy duty, then two different kinds of westward kits. Then they found another 10 or 12 brand new/never issued snap on/genius kits that were in a sea can, and had to be assembled, deviation slips made up, and turned in.



At one point I had a 40 foot sea can filled to 2 levels with tool kits for return. Then, when a bunch of kits did not make it in time from Canada for the teams to use for the preparation of vehicles to go back, they opened the container and issued all the tool kits that I had so carefully done all the prep work to. This is known as librarian syndrome, where a librarian gets all the books put away on the shelves, and then don't want anyone touching them lest they mess them up.



I worked right up into the last afternoon that I was there trying to make up just one more kit....if I had another week I could have finished the job.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

Sadly I could not convince you to pose for a photo.

Nothing personal Ed, I am just funny that way. I have had requests by papers like maple leaf to do stories on me, heck, they even offered me my own page. Told them every time I was not interested.