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Speaker 1
whan of you guys think the commanders wear underneath ther trousers? Anget, anger. Nd, press the button and say, nothing at all.
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Speaker 1
which direction is the blast coming fro?
Speaker 1
to stop external blaste coming in, rather than the internal blastr going out. And but it's because basically, if there's like, an explosion or a mine or something like that, you might get some shrapnel. And you have a lot of very important arteries, apart from everything else that's down there. You know, if you get a bit of shrapnel in your upper thigh, than you're done for. And so they all have these, what they nappy protectors, and they put those things up. We're not sure why going commando comes from where it comes from, according to the o e d, probably it's just because commanders are really brave and hard cor and it's like, it was like american school slang, college slang, and the like well, if you don't wear pants, you're as hard cor as a commander. But then there is some interviews with commander, there was an interview with am west, who is a commander. And he said that they would take off their pants because if they didn't, then there would be bacteria cultivated, and their balls might drop off. That's
Speaker 4
what he said. As he also said sometimes
Speaker 1
they might like going to an area, and then they would leave a pair of soiled pants to taunt the enemy. And so when they came away, they would bewearing any hone
Speaker 4
of these underneath rat boys, what's the
Speaker 1
the most serious e. Great use we've got to sam, a bi louted, right, you, private smith, get your pants off. What's that?
Speaker 4
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