Originally Posted by
Jethro
At the risk of being naive...what's wrong with the A-3 bag? I did A-10 demo for two years (1992-1993) and stuffed it into a travel pod every weekend. Snagged it on the pod door many times and it survived unscathed. While I don't go TDY as often as I did then, I'm still using the same A-3 bag. It's a bit old and faded but still does what it was designed for. I think it was issued to me during UPT (1984)!
Spend about 2 days as an AMC pilot dragging bags all over gods creation, up stairs and ladders and maybe, just maybe the occasional elevator, and across the rocks at the Deid, and out to the jet only to break and drag them back to the car and then back to the sqaudron and you will want 1. The biggest bag you can find 2. The lightest bag you can find 3. WHEELS.
I had a bag that was no kidding made by Hummer! Picked it up at the Rhein-main bx for like 30 bucks, still could use it today but have a squadron issue which is doing pretty good so far.