A comment on another thread got me to thinking about this.
When the wife and I visited Carlsbad Caverns two years ago, all the park rangers were carrying their issue 3D MagLites. Not ONE of the many we spoke to had heard of SureFire or StreamLight, and all were amazed by my Stinger, 6P, and 6Z.
I find it interesting how some segments of government/industry embrace the latest/greatest- as the military has done with the SureFire MU system- and others are content to get by with older, traditional gear.
Perhaps it takes a major catalyst- such as the cave fighting in Afghanistan- to wake the bureaucrats up. I know that my agency began issuing Stingers only after a near-fatal incident due to the weak beam of a MagLite.
Or perhaps not. In Nam, the tunnel rats used that old weak-*** plastic angle head 2D light; and that thing is still general-issue to the non-specialized troops. A 6P, or something like it, would have saved a few lives that I know of. Sure, such was non-existent back then. But not now.
Any other thoughts/observations on this?
When the wife and I visited Carlsbad Caverns two years ago, all the park rangers were carrying their issue 3D MagLites. Not ONE of the many we spoke to had heard of SureFire or StreamLight, and all were amazed by my Stinger, 6P, and 6Z.
I find it interesting how some segments of government/industry embrace the latest/greatest- as the military has done with the SureFire MU system- and others are content to get by with older, traditional gear.
Perhaps it takes a major catalyst- such as the cave fighting in Afghanistan- to wake the bureaucrats up. I know that my agency began issuing Stingers only after a near-fatal incident due to the weak beam of a MagLite.
Or perhaps not. In Nam, the tunnel rats used that old weak-*** plastic angle head 2D light; and that thing is still general-issue to the non-specialized troops. A 6P, or something like it, would have saved a few lives that I know of. Sure, such was non-existent back then. But not now.
Any other thoughts/observations on this?