PLCE Webbing (Personal Load Carrying Equipment)

Personal load carrying equipment

The Infantry Trials and Development Unit (ITDU) conducted trials with PLCE. They divided PLCE into three orders of dress:

• Assault Order.
• Combat Order.
• Marching Order.

Assault Order consists of the essentials ammunition, waterbottle, entrenching tool hand (ETH), helmet and NBC clothing (carried in one of the detachable side pouches of the rucksack) for operations and patrols of only short duration.

Combat Order is assault order with the means of stowage for rations and personal equipment to enable a soldier to live and fight for 24 hours. In addition to assault order, the second side pouch of the rucksack is carried. In practice the patrol pack is used by many units and individual soldiers instead of the side pouches as it is larger and more convenient.

Marching Order is combat order plus rucksack ("Bergen") and is a load which will be required for an operation of up to two weeks’ duration without resupply except for ammunition, rations and water. The complete Bergen is carried.

my own PLCE contents which is in combat order consists of:


in webbing:

1. FFD (first field dressing) x 2
2. snap glow sticks x 3
3. batterys AAA x 8
4. electronic night light x 2
5. small binos
6. small led torch with red filter adapter
7. black electrical tape x 2
8. leatherman multitool
9. 3" lock knife
10. 58 pattern water bottle with crusader cup
11. first aid kit
12. kfs
13. crusader mess tins
14. survial kit
15. emergency rations
16. brew kit
17. gas cooker
18. gas bottle
19. basha
20. bungies
21. tent pegs
22. tent peg extactor
23. compass
24. cam cream x 3
25. crap hat
26. scrim net x 2 (for camin up rifle)
27. gloves (leather)
28. gloves (leather fingerless)
29. shemagh (OG/black)
30. rifle sling
31. triangler bandages x 3
32. emercency foil blanket
33. whislte
34. fire steel
35. insect repellent
36. small fishing kit
37. sewing kit
38. mirror
39. speed loader
40. ear defs
41. zippo lighter
    

in day sack:

1. camal back 2 litre water bladder
2. gortex jacket and trousers
3. rations
4. neuwigon shirt(for cold nights)
5. fleece OG for cold nights (being replaced by a soft shell)
6. football socks
7. talcum powder
8. spare 58 pattern waterbottle for other people in my section
9. spare 95's
10. multi matt self inflating roll matt
11. sleeing bag
12. underwear x 3
13. socks x 3
14. tshirts x2
15. wash kit
16. small bootkit
    
17. and some other little bits