what's the purpose of leg gaiters?

Protecting your shins and keeping shit out of your boots.

>>32724967
Bear protection

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>>32724979
this
>it's hot as shit
>my girl back home is fucking brody
>carl doesn't know how to shoot the 240
>achmed is shooting at me
>AND i have a rock in my boots

>>32724979
This.

Btw anybody have a source for some "tactical" leg gaiters? I found some British surplus ones in multicam a while back but can't find them again.

>>32724967
Keeping your boots and socks clean and dry. In Minnesota they use them to keep snow out of their boots.

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>>32725174
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/group/gaiters/450

>>32725174
Just get them in either black or a dull neutral color you homo.

>>32725187
not the anon you were talking to but none of those look as aesthetic as the one in OP's pic

>>32724967
To keep your feet dry. These guys are obviously deployed in some kind of marshland or jungle where trench foot is enough of a consideration to issue gaiters.

>>32724967
They look super cool.

That's all Battlefield's gear is based around.

>>32724967

I wear some while I turkey hunt as extra tick protection.

This looks similar to the OP pic, and it has multicam, but they don't have zipper. http://www.ottegear.com/catalog-detail.php?p=45

>>32724967
gaiters are great in rocky terrain and for walking in wet vegetation, like a grass field in the morning.
They can be used in mud to prevent getting mud on your shoes. They are usually used when wearing strap crampons for ice climbing.

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>>32725188
>black

>>32725016
jody**

>>32725174
How the fuck do you make leg gaiters tactical? You want a pair with molle on it or something? Go down to your local milsurp store, buy a set of them in od or tan, and buy some bleach and fabric dye in the color of your choice.

>>32725686
>You want a pair with molle on it or something
hey this is actually a good idea, i mean you could put a knife holster there or something

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>>32725174
Dunno bout a source, but tasmanian tiger makes some good cordura gaiters in several colours (and multicam for that extra tacticality).
The swiss ones you see on varusteleka are a bit warmer (not like it really matters) and not bad either if you find grey tactical.

>>32724967
>>32725174
>>32725188
>>32725354
>>32725686
>>32726276

OR you could buy $3 boot bands and blouse your boots

>>32727053
>t. Staff sergeant

>>32724967
18th century knee length gaiters with tricornes are pure sex
In a practical sense they're for keeping shit and/or water out of your boots

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>>32725280
It's still composed entirely of real gear.

pic related

>>32725706
Or you could use the strap that came with the knife sheath, or more likely a random pack strap that is laying around. Or just put your knife on your belt/chest like a normal person. Unless, you are parachuting and expect to end up in a tree, all tangled and fucked around upside down. There is no reason to have a knife on your boot. If you do get tangled in a tree, your knife will be bound to your leg with bullshit anyway. Murphy never sleeps.

>gets gaiters that slick up your leg from knee to toe
>puts Molly on gaiters
>now gaiters catch every fucking thing you pass

>be me
>on a operation beer run
>jump out of truck to deploy cash money for booze
>bootlace caught on exposed trim screw
>belly flop like a fat kid at a splash competition
>later that night
>fucking about around the campsight
>boots and pants caught on all sorts of unseen bullshit

Sure would be nice if I had some gaiters to contain this mess

>>32727302
I knew I wasn't the only one, breeches and gaiters are A E S T H I C af

>>32727538
I can't help but love revolution era redcoats, the white knee length gaiters with white breeches, that coat and tricornes is probably the most /fa/ man has looked in history in my personal opinion, even though my tastes mostly lie in high middle ages stuff

>>32724979
>Blouse your boots
>Shit doesn't get in boots
+
>Having boots loose enough for shit to get in
>Wanting to twist your ankle

I want airsoft to leave.

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>Be walking around any of the prickly scrubbrush outside of Sicily DZ.
>Shit getting caught in your bloused boot's laceup not only trips you up and tangles on shit, but the sound of you dragging along 8ft of stickerbush is louder than shit.
>have a pair of Twin Needle putties to give the bushes something not to snag on, and to keep Water Moccasins from biting my ankles.

Then there's the venting, the prevention of taking water in through your laceups as you walk through tall grass, and the ability to make your issued suede boots blend in a little better with JRTC.

But what do I know? I'm just a non-deployed SPC, right?

>>32727053
Gaiters are for low boots.
Duh.

>>32727852
I know that feel bro. Bring it in.

>>32724967
Crawling

>>32728191
Ukraine's not a "real" deployment, I guess.

>>32728366
I was at Vilseck with 2CR, PCS'd to 1st Cav at hood. Germany wasn't real. I did do a TDY in Vietnam. Guess 'nam ain't a warzone anymore.

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>carrying magazines for a gun you're not using

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>>32728423
Frankly, who's gonna stop em.

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>>32728511
Mexico has a habit of wearing ammo they can't use.

Panic Villa style

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>>32728521
*Pancho, fug
Or they just go over the top

>>32724967
They are awesome in winter. At the WEF last year we had to set up tents in the snow. Gaiters kept our pants and socks dry and warm (to some degree)

>>32728511
>>32728521

If the squad has an MG wouldn't it make sense for the other squad members to each carry an extra belt for it?

>>32724967
Unrelated, but I absolutely love Battlefield's character models. They look operator as fuck.

>>32728521
Hot, I want her to dominate me. Choke me please.

Dunno about 'tactical' uses but I go hiking a lot and they're nice for keeping your trousers dry if it's been raining and you're walking through long grass.

I guess they'll also keep shit out of your boots but that shouldn't be an issue anyway if you buy boots that fit.

>>32724979
>>32724967
6

How come the other two dont have em

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>>32728674
That can be arranged

www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/04/14/woman-brutally-interrogated-as-she-gasps-for-air/

>>32724967
Only true answer: They keep twigs and rocks and shit out of your skateboard shoes because you were too stupid to buy boots even though you understand the need.

Gaiters are for trail runners and shit and other shoes that don't have a high ankle. Gaiters solve a problem that people themselves create as an excuse to spend more money to feel more uncomfortable while they don't actually ever do anything outside.

>>32724979
>Protecting your shins
just what

>>32725174
What the fuck for? Do you want pals webbing and qd attachment points? Cut the arms off an old sweatshirt and you'll have probably the best designed gaiters you could wish for

>>32725182
If they're wearing pants over boots they don't need gaiters.

>>32725227
If guys are walking around in water that goes higher than the tops of their boots, gaiters are not going to fucking help them.

>>32727730
Holy shit someone who actually knows what they're talking about

>>32728567
If you wore actual boots they would have also kept your socks dry. If you're concerned about getting your pants wet just stay home.


ITT all these operators whose only experience is looking at video game characters and searching "gators" on REI once a week

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>>32725174
If you want to know the specific brand that they're wearing, they're wearing Outdoor Research Crocodiles.

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>>32729028
>Rainbow Six
Mine negro

also, tfw no 10mm mp5

>>32727631
Dude are you me? Redcoat asthetic is what really got me into history and will probably pull me into reenacting if I move to New England soon.

>>32728983
Maybe I'm a fag, but gators would have been a god send for keeping undergrowth and small branches from snagging and dragging behind me on several military exercises. One with tiny thorns to pick out every evening.

"Because you'll be drowning in pussy as a Marine" -A recruiter somewhere

>>32728983
Literally I have never been within 10 miles of heavy brush: The post.
>Protecting your shins
>just what
>If they're wearing pants over boots they don't need gaiters.
Running through a good thicket of Gorse will absolutely leave cotton BDUs in shreds. Gaiters also have their uses for not stabbing yourself when wearing crampons.

>>32724967
you ever camp in snow or have to cross scree fields or even bushwhack through dense foliage, or even have very pissed off rattlesnake sitting dead center under your truck, no no you have not. Gaiters solve all of these problems and more. Hike with rocks and dirt in your boots no more and keep your lower legs clean in the mud. Gaiters are good.

>>32727362
moar?

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>>32727362
That's not a PTT, it's an Aqua Lung LV2.

>>32727730
>blouse your boots
>blouse
>boots
You blouse the pants, winner. Even then
>blousing strap cant keep pants over boots when moving worth a damn
>straps only good for partial/permanent nerve damage
>not tucking the pant leg in the boot

You got the rest right, though. Loose boots roasts the goose.

breaking in your boots is a dumb meme that needs to die

>>32729552
"Break in" is real, but it's not going to magically resize your boots which is what most people think it does.

"Broken in" boots usually only means that they've got a bit more flex around the ankle and in the sole, unless you bought a decent pair of boots, in which case you'll walk the fucking sole off before they lose their stiffness; OR, if you bought a cheapass pair, in which case they will actually get harder and stiffer and worse to wear over time.

>>32724967
OP clearly does not live in an area with plentiful venomous snakes.

>>32729471
Look at this boy

>>32728602
This.

>>32729552
Sike

What i wanna know is who decided to make the BF1 medics carry fucking cruthes on their backs?

>>32729973
It's so you know that are a medic just from the silhouette

>>32729544
Stop being a pedantic faggot. Everyone who "blouses their pants" calls it "blousing your boots".

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>>32727631
>>32729081
This thread needs more redcoats.

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>>32730233
Would Spanish work? I used to serve on that cannon crew.

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>>32730233
Early 19th century uniforms were good as well

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>>32730233

>>32725016
lol pic is perfect

>>32727362
why would a man carry shotgun but have pmags on him

>>32731310
breechers gonna breech

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>>32731310
Because Battlefield is for children

>>32731310
Gee! Bill! How come you're mom let's you carry two guns?!

>>32731399
>AFG and MVG on that scar

Vulgar.

>>32731589
it's almost like he's an airshitter

>>32731589
Kek
You can tell he doesn't know what those are for.

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>>32731399
>Talking into the top of a yeti

>>32731399
>that target on the wall of that one time he probably went to Vegas to shoot an AR-15 for $200 bucks for one magazine

>>32727362
Massif Overlord gloves

>>32730075
No, they dont you literal COD fag

>>32731650
Also oakely mframe glasses

>>32731683
Yes, they do dipshit.

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>>32731399
This is one of the reasons why i don't go taticool and would rather go terrorwave

>>32731807
>>32731646
>>32731604
You guys know he was AD Army right?

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>>32731854
Was he a cook or something? i highly doubt he would have all that crap, wear his uniform and have someone take a picture of him with his "tough" guy pose. Just screams wannabe to me.

>>32731699
No, those aren't. They're ESS Crossbow glasses.

>>32725174
For true oper8rs
http://jas-townsend.com/thigh-length-gaiters-black-p-1578.html?osCsid=b8e0b8657daa53881e98ebb64a3f79f4

>>32730435
Why is he wearing one kneepad

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Best class
That red beret

Them Russian MP in Syria with red berets

Reminder that EA will fuck up bc3 for money

>>32731950
He was 25 series with an SF unit, has a CAB and jump wings. I don't think you can bs taking indirect fire with an SF unit to get a CAB. You never know tho. He makes money off the airsoft world for his uniform and his "tough" guy pose. If I was him, I'd milk the shit out of it.

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>>32730233
>next Battlefield game set in Napoleonic era.
>Everyone has Puckle guns

>>32732013
True operators wear white gaiters with red coats

>>32732040
He has both kneepads, one is just pushed down. Probably cause he kneels on the one knee, and doesn't feel like having the discomfort of both pads on his knees. That last bit might just be me projecting, because the pads I have have to be tight as fuck to stay up.

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>>32727362
>Cyre
>Cyre
>Cyre

>>32732148
only the kind of operators that like surrendering colonies to armed common folk do that.

>>32727730
Gaiters also keep yo shit from getting wet

>>32732082
he was 82nd neverdeployed because of hep c

>>32731399
For those who don't know this jumps name is spartan117gw. AKA Greg Wong, he's in the Army Reserves or something and on his YouTube channel he mixes up his videos with airsoft some bullshit about games and actually firing real guns. A lot of the Tactical shit he does is mostly just for promotion he's got a partnership with Magpul Airsoft division and is one of their salesmen.

When I did a long range patrolling ex in the beginning of winter the more experienced guys had decent mountain boots on, gaiters and they wore regular combat pants instead of goretex because we were rucking 40km+ in -5C weather. It makes sense in some scenarios. Also if you wear short boots you won't get chafing around your legs which I tend to get. Like literally scratching my skin off.

So basically if you want to wear non waterproof breathable pants, and short boots because you're going to be walking forever then gaiters make sense.

>>32724967

To keep mud out of your boots. Unfortunately, mine's have a tendency of falling down and I can't tighten them any more than I already do.

>>32727362

If I saw someone under my command not properly blousing their boots, I would violently assault them.

>>32732056

I just want them to keep BF3 and 4's weapon customization, bring back the M16A2 SPECACT and add the customizable uniforms from Battlefield Play4Free and I would be happy.

>>32734157
You can't blouse hiking boots retard.

>>32728770
because the character were designed to cool and be recognizable in game

>>32729130
>gators
"gaiters", kek, like a walking gait

>>32735051
That's the joke fuckstick

>>32728423
Hey man, even the Chinese in that game carry STANAGs so he's not even that wrong.

>>32728983
>>32733520
Look at that. Yes, blousing high boots with robust water resistant trousers will give you a similar effect, but both of these have their own problems. Gaiters are a quick way to improve low boots and standard trousers (and btw. I've yet to see boots as high or pants as robust as this pair of gaiters I have.)

>>32728983
massive fag

>>32727730
>not just tucking your pant legs into your boots
For what purpose? Also, I'm sick of all the fucking nonners blousing their pants wrong and having two inches of socks visible between their boots and pant legs. Looks fucking terrible.

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>not using the superior puttees

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first lite has some great shit, I got a pair of their kanabs a year ago, that's all I hike in now, they offer these gaiters at a pretty resonable price, supposedly their quiet enough to hunt in so they must be alright.

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>>32732056

>>32727457
You're such a soup sandwich I went from ragging on you to rooting for you.

>>32732056
BC2 was the shit

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>>32738230
Do they make like canvas puttees for hot weather? If its hot I don't want to wrap a bunch of wool around my legs.

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>>32740622

>>32727852
>Non deployed SPC

My nigga

>>32731399
that scar tho
hahahaha
can i say fairly that only an asian would do that?

>>32738151
Some of us were required to look good in uniform. Between 2nd and 3rd eyeloop and it was supposed to be tight. In country/the field who cares. I either tucked into boot like you said, or just bloused it really low so it would ride up to my socks.

are gaiters a good thing to have, waterproof boot or not?

>>32731854
if he was he wouldn't wear flags on both sides dipshit