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[Grand58742]

As a corpsman, I never once used it in a medical capacity. Like duct tape, those things had a hundred uses....

I think I still have a bunch of them still in the packing from the CLS bag I "forgot" to turn in.

[sundance435]

I've been getting a lot of mileage out of my OD shemagh.

A properly worn shemagh would be a good face covering for this, I would think. Also, probably the added effect of people instinctively distancing from you.

[soulezoo]

Yup. Me too on the shemagh.

[yoni]

I have more than a few shemagh's or as the Palestinians call them keffiyehs, that the owners no longer had use for. Being using them since face covering has become the in thing.

Red and white for when I want to pass as a Jordanian, black and white when I want to pass as scum of the earth, ops palestinian. Arafat wore one all the time to hide his bald head, he got more action with euro trash males by covering his bald head.

[ThirdWatcher]

There used to be olive drab cravats used for arm slings, etc. Those got used for head rags, face coverings, you name it.

I remember those, I broke my arm when I was a kid and that’s what the Air Force hospital gave me to use (I was a Navy brat & my Dad was on Recruiting duty and the AF Hospital was the closest).

[ST911]

You can do a lot of good work with those large green cravats. Very useful.

[Grand58742]

Related military uniform news.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/...ace-masks.html

The U.S. Army's Chemical Biological Center just ran an extensive round of tests that officials say has revealed the best fabric to use for making homemade face coverings for preventing the spread of coronavirus.

The center, which falls under the Combat Capabilities Development Command, began testing materials around the same time that the Pentagon's April 5 announcement allowing service members to make their own face coverings opened up a flood of discussion on social media.

"We knew that claims about masks and face coverings were exploding all over the internet, and we wanted to make sure that any decisions about materials ... will be based on proven science," David Caretti, who leads the effort as the chief of the Center's Chemical Biological Protection & Decontamination Division, said in a recent Army news release.

After running about 300 tests, the team found that one of the best readily available materials to use in a homemade face covering is four-ply microfiber cloth, which is popular for cleaning and polishing surfaces, according to the release.

"It filters out over 75% of particles," according to the release. "In comparison, the N95 mask used by healthcare workers in hospitals can filter 95 percent of particles or greater."

[jsbhike]

I think I found a winner.

[chuckman]

I have more than a few shemagh's or as the Palestinians call them keffiyehs, that the owners no longer had use for. Being using them since face covering has become the in thing.

Red and white for when I want to pass as a Jordanian, black and white when I want to pass as scum of the earth, ops palestinian. Arafat wore one all the time to hide his bald head, he got more action with euro trash males by covering his bald head.

My former brother-in-law is Paki; every time he and my sister would come back from 'over there' he'd bring me one. A few years ago I tossed a garbage bag of maybe a dozen from throughout the years, all the red-and-white. I was like, I am as WASP as you can get, what am I going to do with these things?

[teufelhund1918]

Every once in a while these folks get in some American flag shemaghs. I got a camo one and a red/white/blue one about a year ago. Pretty nice and they keep my head and neck nice and warm when I'm out hunting.

https://thesemitic.com/item-category/keffiyehs/

These folks have the American flag version now:

https://www.bancsmedia.com/shop/category/scarves/