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Royal Air Force officer with 1958 pattern holster. A standard set of 1958 Pattern webbing as issued to most British personnel consisted of a belt, a yoke that supported the attachment of a shovel or pick, two ammunition pouches to carry magazines for the L1A1 self-loading rifle, Sterling submachine gun, or L4A1-A9 machine gun, linked 7.62mm ammunition for the L7A1/A2 general-purpose machine ...
The water bottle of the 1908 pattern web equipment was unchanged, though the web carrier was changed to incorporate the 1-inch-wide brace ends of the 1937 gear. [citation needed] Water bottle: The Mark VII water bottle was attached to the brace ends on the right hip in either a 'skeleton' or 'bucket' style webbing carrier. [19]
Pouches that are to be worn on the back (field pack, utility, water bottle, respirator, wire cutter, entrenching tool) attach to the belt using the same loop and tab system. The detachable side pouches of a Bergen ( pouch, side, rucksack, DPM, IRR ) can be attached to the dedicated shoulder harness ( yoke, pouch side, rucksack, DPM, IRR ) to ...
The Martinsville Dam is a gravity dam on the Smith River in Martinsville, Virginia. The dam was completed in 1924 and houses a 1.3 MW power plant which supplies power to the city of Martinsville. Before the current dam, there was a mill dam in its location. [1] The dam and power plant are operated by the Martinsville Electric Department. [2]
The dam is 250 feet (76 m) high and 916 feet (279 m) long. The earth-filled dam is constructed of rock with a central clay core, which prevents water from passing through the dam. A 1,145-acre (463 ha) lake is formed behind the dam with almost 40 miles (64 km) of shoreline. South of the dam is the emergency spillway.
Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake. The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power ) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity .
Reservoirs in Virginia (33 P) W. Water towers in Virginia (1 P) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:27 (UTC). ...
The project was constructed and began generating electric power in 1930 at the site of a former dam constructed in the 1820's and reconstructed in the 1850's known as Cushaw Falls Dam. [2] The Cushaw Project consists of a 1,550-foot-long, 27-foot-high reinforced concrete dam, with a 1,500-foot-long spillway extending diagonally across the James ...