Backpack features

SlickShughes

I recently bought a new back pack from an army/navy store. I'm happy with it, but it has a few features that confuse me. They seemed to be common among all the bags the store had in stock, and I've seen them on many bags online as well. They don't hinder me in anyway, I just want to know their intended purpose.

One: There are stripes of webbing across the front and sides, stiched down/loose in alternating 1 inch segments. See this bag on amazon for similar.

Two: There is a 3x5 inch (or so) patch of velcro on the top front of the bag. What's intended to attach here?

These are military style bags (I think), so perhaps someone with a military background could shed some light for me?

ANTVGM64

1) I don't know

2) I think that velcro is just to attach something like a water bottle or another item to the bag.

AngelHedgie

SlickShughes wrote: »

I recently bought a new back pack from an army/navy store. I'm happy with it, but it has a few features that confuse me. They seemed to be common among all the bags the store had in stock, and I've seen them on many bags online as well. They don't hinder me in anyway, I just want to know their intended purpose.

One: There are stripes of webbing across the front and sides, stiched down/loose in alternating 1 inch segments. See this bag on amazon for similar.

Two: There is a 3x5 inch (or so) patch of velcro on the top front of the bag. What's intended to attach here?

These are military style bags (I think), so perhaps someone with a military background could shed some light for me?

The webbing is for adding on other items, like a flashlight or knife. The velcro patch is probably for placing identifying information on the bag (you want to be able to ditch that ASAP if you need to.)

SlickShughes

AngelHedgie wrote: »

The webbing is for adding on other items, like a flashlight or knife. The velcro patch is probably for placing identifying information on the bag (you want to be able to ditch that ASAP if you need to.)

I had a feeling on the webbing. So you would just tie things to that? The velcro thing makes sense as well. It seemed in the right place for a flag patch, but I couldn't understand why you would need to change that often enough to use velcro for it... Quick removal seems resonable.

CooterTKE

There are a bunch of little add ons that you can get for the bag to hold different stuff and you use the velcro to attach them. a buddy has a whole system for snowboarding that is pretty cool.

MegoDrDoom

This website shows the kind of stuff that would go into the webbing. Its the long strips with the button at the bottom. You would feed them through and then snap it closed.

http://www.dgsoldiertalk.com/catalogLBV.html

Its called MOLLE in case you are interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOLLE_%28military%29

as for the velcro, I'm not sure. They usually have a small patch for rank and then a thin strip for the name tape. I'm not sure what the larger patch would be for.

mts

you use them to clip carabiners to. the webbing on the bottom got their origins as ice axe loops but you can use them to hold other things.