Assigned Equipment

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Gumby Bush

Suppose, however, that "standard issue gear" is not defined. How would you go about defining it? What sort of variation might apply within "standard issue"?

You start by thinking about what's needed to do the job, and the variations of the job. The most common example of standard issue equipment is soldiers, and here's a set of pictures of British soldiers' equipment since 1066.

The variations are mostly commonly those within roles: within a squad, soldiers often have variations in armament (squad leader, machine-gunner, riflemen) and those ripple through to ammunition, cleaning kits, load-bearing equipment, and so on.

Then you modify for the wealth of the organisation, the degree of standardisation it demands, the environment, and so on.