The Pacific Rim Military Survival Kit - Condoms, Knives, Garotting Wire

[Rich Johnston]

Got this in the post this morning. A Pacific Rim Military Survival Kit. Let's have a look at what we got...

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[SuperJohn]

You should never hit the Rim without a condom to hand...

[Brendon Connelly]

I'm jealous. What's this being delivered to some sort of comics blogger for anyhow? Reminds me of the time I got a bunch of Green Lanterns in the post.

[SuperJohn]

It's also a wire saw, not a garotting wire. I guess yoiu just got too giddy when you saw a *tee hee* condom and went wild with the imaginings...

[kamenwriter555]

I like how you couldn't figure out how to close the knife at first... how very British!

[tkioz]

You should never hit the Rim without a condom to hand...

Well to be honest the condom is issued by various armed forces around the world for a hell of a lot more than safe-sex.

A condom can be a great water carrying device.

A condom can be used to keep water and junk out of the barrel of a rifle.

Can be used as a make-shift glove, or a make-shift storage device for sensitive material (papers for example).

Very useful little device.

Hell, during WWI tampons were hard to get your hands on because they were issued to medics by the truck load. Think about it, highly absorbent sterilized padding? perfect wound dressing. A lot of soldiers still carry a few condoms and tampons in their kit, purchased out of their own money, they are small, lightweight, and sometimes better then the "purpose designed" military solution.