- Tactical Gloves Circa 1475
When I was much younger, I had no use for gloves since, of course, I was way too tough to need them. After years of having my hands all cut up or rope burned, I started buying deerskin gloves at the local farm supply. Fast forward 20+ years to me working in the firearms industry.
Blackhawk (what’s with the exclamation point at the end? That’s just stupid so I don’t use it), 5.11 Tactical and everybody else starts selling kevlar/nomex/unobtanium/kryptonite gloves. I figure technology must have brought the lowly hand protector from the Stone Age to the pinnacle of perfection, so I bought and bought.
Fuck me. What a waste of money. All those modern materials do is keep my hands cold, unprotected and looking tactically wonderful. Fire resistant? Sure, unless the gloves get near a real flame and melt.
And I guess the cutting tools I use must have an edge that only a Japanese sword smith could create, since these high-tech gloves from the expert manufacturers at labor camp #12 in China can’t withstand the touch of a dull chisel.
After becoming totally sick of having gloves that look great but don’t do a damn thing other than get in the way, I found an answer.
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- The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, hiking up a muddy French road in the Chambois Sector, France, in late 1944.
Recently NPR aired a segment regarding the huge influx of Asian Americans joining the ranks of the armed services. However I was very angry at the comment she made that more Asian Americans are joining because of prominent soldiers who “look like them.”
Thus by huge almost cosmic coincidence I was reminded by my late night Wikipedia searches and James G about the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team. This was an entirely Asian American fighting unit that served with distinction throughout World War 2.
21 members of the unit were recipients of the Medal of Honor. With a total of 9,486 purple hearts, one of its components the 100th infantry battalion was aptly dubbed the Purple Heart brigade.
Composed entirely of Nisei Japanese these second generation Japanese American citizens saw their families interned in relocation camps following the xenophobia as Japanese Americans were seen as interlopers.
Even in the face of such discrimination when the army asked for 1500 volunteers from Hawaii and 3000 from the mainland, nearly 10000 from Hawaii alone stepped forward to answer the call to arms.
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