The Airborne Pasgt "K Pot" Helmet

This is an instructional video on how to properly set up your K Pot helmet for airborne operations in the 82nd Airborne Division

[@reddevilparatrooper]

Yep. That was once upon a time for me. I like the video quality. Very 1980s.

[@kilo393]

I like the aesthetic. Makes it look like a real military training video. I was able to find a PASGT helmet and everything in this video. This was very easy to follow and really helped me to assemble everything. Now I have a jump ready PASGT helmet.

[@joegreen4547]

I can’t find the crash pad

[@bobdole2766]

Where the heck did you find the retention strap. I've been searching for awhile now and can find everything except that stupid retention strap

[@kilo393]

@@bobdole2766 I got mine on Ebay. I use to be able to find them easily on there, but I just searched for it and I can't find it anywhere so I don't know what's up with that. The crash pad was the hardest to find for me.

[@bobdole2766]

@@kilo393 I am having the opposite problum! Oh how 2 years changes things up 🤣.

[@kilo393]

@@bobdole2766 ikr the guy I got it from had a ton of them and now I wish I had bought more 😂

[@newdefsys]

SSG Palladino, making KZbin videos before KZbin even existed. Hell, before the internet even existed.

[@atreides9117]

Хорошее видео. Наши железнодорожные войска тоже знают расстояние до синей площади Белого Дома))

[@deathfromabove2250]

Interesting how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Such as securing the foilage band with 550 cord. I still taught that with my soldiers as a squad leader in 2018-2021. Its the cheapest and most effective method for doing so.

[@WarrenCrowder]

With the demo knife, gotta love those things

[@Xtragicfever]

Trooper, how did that sweat band and webbing not get a no-go during inspection? It's absolutely filthy.

[@mildredcrouch5617]

cause it's most likely 30 to 35 years old

[@15vertigo]

Great video! I enjoy your content a lot. I love the 80s aesthetic you're going for in your video, too :) Regards from a fellow 82nd ABN enthusiast!

[@pilgrim42]

If you were in the 82nd CIF would issue a kevlar helmet with the pad already installed (we referred to them as kevlars, - the term k-pot did not come about untiol the very late 80s or even early 90's). Also you did not need 550 cord to keep the "foliage band" on the helmet during airborne operations, never saw anyone do that.

[@offbeatmaniac400]

Was it common to see sun, wind, and dust goggles on helmets in the 82nd?

[@pilgrim42]

@@offbeatmaniac400 Not in the 80's. The only time we were issued those were for deployment to the Sinai for the MFO.

[@offbeatmaniac400]

@@pilgrim42 Thanks!

[@brittsmith8260]

I was in the 82nd 87-90 and every swinging Richard up and down the ranks had their band secured with good ol 550 cord.

[@pilgrim42]

@@brittsmith8260 I got out in '87 and never saw a single instance of it.

[@balaclavacotidiano4727]

Well this was awfully useful and illustrative.

[@verydeadduck]

My dad was in the 82nd airborn

[@WWIIman1942]

Do you know where I might be able to find one of those parachutists pads?

[@WWIIman1942]

Just discovered your channel. It's great! Very helpful to so some who's creating an 82nd AB impression. Were/are you in the 82nd, or do you just collect or reenact 82nd?

[@chrisreed6277]

Its Parachutist retention strap

[@Nperez1986]

I've run ALL my helmet bands as such...ever since I was thought as a new Private in the 82nd Airborne Division in 2005 :D. Everything (and everybody else) looked like junk after that

[@AJPlana]

Where do you find a crash pad??? I have everything but the pad.

[@CorporalShephard]

Anyone know where I can find a pad and retention strap?

[@epicwwiistuff6863]

maybe a surplus store?

[@tigerpresentationsproducts425]

You might find one at your local surplus store or on Amazon

[@Frens03]

A few years ago it was still available at the px.. like all the Alice webbing.. shouldn’t be hard to find at surplus stores outside airborne bases.

[@gooseman7522]

Wouldn’t the ret straps go through the slits on the back of the cover snd on the back of the crash pad keeping the crash pad pushed against your head?

[@pilgrim42]

no. The SOP was more or less as seen on the video.

[@knight8573]

Can’t believe I destroyed mine threw them away not researching it.

[@pillscottvt6628]

Them locking bars better be correct!

[@docback63]

wow...and Ronald Reagan was in the Oval Office when he was doing this demo...1986..I see he's wearing an 82nd combat patch, he must've been in Grenada in 1983.

[@kilo393]

It's a reenactment video.

[@brittsmith8260]

Most likely.

[@stevedawson741]

This isn't Ft Bragg people

[@stevedawson741]

Not an 80s video

[@epicwwiistuff6863]

No shit

[@auroa9854]

no really??

[@oni_goroshi]

Are you sure? It looks like it was filmed on Betamax to me.