>2016
>Not sleeping with a woobie
>Not having one in your go-bag
>shiggity diggity
>>29439222
Is this the birth of an epic new meme?
>>29439222
Trips for truth! Woobies are essentially the modern equivalent to mithril, without the armor...
What's a woobie?
>>29439673
No woobz confirmed
>>29439222
completely honest, I sleep using one as a cover and keep one in my summer go bag
>>29439222
When my family first came to America and were poor as fuck, I had one of those as a blanket lmao I had no idea it was milsurp till just last year.
>>29439222
>2020-4
>not having a thick and nice looking bedspread that doesn't make you look like a basement dweller
That being said I've slept with one at a friend's house and it was fucking nice.
![CIRTy8SUAAAQ8Xr[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rPkgu5r.jpg "CIRTy8SUAAAQ8Xr[1].jpg")
WOOBIE
Uh, no thanks, I'll take the MSS over a silly ass poncho blanket.
I'll be okay.
My wife stole my woobie and claimed it as her own, I need to get another one.
>>29440163
>this is what nowoobz plebs actually believe
I'm literally having a kek atm this moment
>>29440287
>browsing usawtfm
>ever
Fag
>>29439222
Does using a milsurp wool blanket (I have several) count?
>>29439222
Checked
Also in the Canadian military we call them ranger blanket......not a fucking "woobie"
>>29439222
>wanted to buy a woobie
>go to surplus store
>they all cost 30 or 40 dollars
For fucks sakes
>>29439673
It's a poncho liner/ security blanket for milfags. Cozy af to be perfectly desu pham.
http://taskandpurpose.com/why-the-woobie-is-the-greatest-military-invention-ever-fielded/
>>29440416
Nigger, they shouldn't be that high If they aren't dated for Vietnam.
>>29440406
Term "woobie" comes from the name commonly used by American children to refer to their security blanket.
As far as I go, I haven't picked one up yet, but I do have this Indian blanket I picked up going through New Mexico last year. Use it outside and is comfy as fuck.
>>29440163
I actually just use a plain black one I picked up at a milsurp stores. The ladies love it, it doesn't look spergy
>>29440245
no woobz confirmed
>>29439222
It's a poncho liner, faggot.
>>29440379
very good, but not a woobie...so sorry.
>>29442195
>It's a poncho liner, faggot.
We always called them poncho liners when I was in the Corps. I love mine.
>>29440406
>Also in the Canadian military we call them.....who the fuck cares.
wish i could say you got guts kid.
>>29439673
A woobie is the thermal liner for an issued poncho. It is lightweight, and relatively comfortable, like a normal blanket. Men have packed the woobie in their packs to provide a modicum of comfort and warmth in harsh conditions. When weight is major concern, and sleep is unreliably given the woobie can be deployed and used as a quick and ad hoc sleeping aid when the encumberance and extra weight of a sleeping bag is un-needed.
To the dirty and tired infantryman on the constant move, the ability to cuddle up to something, even for the briefest of sleep is something akin to nirvana.
It is called a woobie in a semi-mocking or "ironic" way to call back the ways a child might refer to their security blanket.
>>29440469
But they were. I'll check eBay tonight and see if I can find a not retarded price.
>>29442299
the company i work at recently had some for sale but are now sold out. scored 4 for my family.
in the off chance we get more i will post on /k/
>>29442282
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSVCQ-NmTac
No woobie here, I do however sleep with my Czech sleeping bag liner.
Damn those sweet ass woobies.
>>29440406
when I joined the US Army in the early 90s, we called them Ranger blankets too. Some time around 2000 it shifted and ppl started calling them woobies
>>29442298
These sound magical. How the fuck have I not heard this shit before?
Want one.
>>29439222
>Not having a USGI wool blanket
Chicken leg faggots get out.
>>29442269
>We always called them poncho liners when I was in the Corps. I love mine.
Same. I think 'woobie' is more common with army cats. Still 10/10 though.
>>29439222
Nice trips.
Woobie for life.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFEmlhDqdA
>>29442502
They actually aren't THAT great. A normal cotton blanket is VASTLY superior, they are made of some sort of synthetic material that is, hard to describe, but its almost "sticky" when its real humid out. Like it will stick to your exposed skin.
They also aren't that warm, or really anything. But they are really nice to have when you have nothing else. Full uniform on, boots still on. Head propped against the butt of your rucksack, rifle pressed against your side and your woobie draped over you. You punch your ruck to "dent" it so when you turn to your side your neck is at a comfortable angle. You pull your woobie up as you curl into the fetal position.
Your body aches, your feet hurt but you can't take off your boots, too slow to react to any contact, but you pull up your woobie and cuddle it. Its the only comfort you have, the only thing that isn't dirty, and sweaty, and disgusting. You clutch it like a baby, and the term "woobie" is no longer funny, it makes perfect sense.
You don't really need or want one, but like i said, curled up in the one comfortable position you can find with a woobie against your chin makes you feel like you are in the womb again.
I had one a long time ago back in the Boy Scouts during the 90's shit was cash but did not realize they were called woobies. We always called them poncho liners or bag liners
>>29439222
Woobie is just a neverserved/POG meme.
>>29442613
sell that shit somewhere else anon.
>>29442652
i did my time.
>>29442652
Uhh no? I'm AD Infantry and everyone has a woobie and knows exactly what one is. I just did an NTC rotation and spent plenty of nights curled up under a woobie with 1-3 other people for hours on top of a mountain or freezing in a field. The woobie brings comfort and slight warmth, aurelty better than just a poncho but not as great as a sleep system.
these things are such a hot item that most of my friend's ex-wives stole them in the divorce. This is a super common thing.
If your ex-wife stole yours too, then go buy one on amazon. I just re-coup'ed mine and feeling a tiny lace fall into my eye while trying to fall asleep is like receiving a butterfly kiss from heaven itself.
Love my poncho liner.
>>29442298
>>29442269
>>29440519
>>29442487
>>29442533
You have all confirmed yourselves as not infantrymen.
We all know it's called a "woobie" because:
You woo bie cold without it.
Fucking niggers.
>>29439222
Funny thing is, I was looking up about this couple of days ago, using the poncho as shelter, and having this used as some sort of sleeping bag.
>>29443401
MONICA
You don't know warmth until you and 6 other dudes have huddled together under one on a PZ at 0320 in the morning on a brisk afgan winter night.
I have two one UCP and the other was my original issue woodland one. Its been washed so many times its just OD green.
>>29444510
I do know, nigger-lover. I eschewed away from Baghdad in my woodland woobie. It was stolen from me by fucking cocksucking 3BDE 10MTN FAGGOTS at FOB LOYALTY. I acquired back another woodland (albeit, faded) woobie. I carried that woobie with me all the way to Kandahar. In Kandahar it was blown to literal smithereens by 155mm rnds, 4 ea. I broke my back and almost lost an eye. After surgery and Phys Ther. I finished out the deployment strong. I remember huddling under my new UCP™ Woobie (freshly stolen from 2-Fury, 82nd) with my two cherry TL's on a PZ waiting for nightstalkers to pick us up from north of the Arghandab.
So, fuck off.
>>29445211
[mic drop]
>>29443401
2 Marine Infantry units later, it's still called a "poncho liner." I think there may be a branch-gap in terms.
>>29443401
not Infantry? Motherfucker, I bet you were still popping zits and wondering why your dick would get hard when you touched it while I was in the first wave onto the airport in Baghdad with 3/7 Inf. In the 90s we called them Ranger Blankets.
New Marine here, we still call them poncho liners. We used them as our blanket in boot camp since we were only allowed to sleep on top of our made racks.
>>29442779
3rd cav maybe?
what does it matter after all what you call it.
i suspect that anyone calling it a poncho liner
might reason that others would think it too unmanly to call a woobie.
i'm the type that cares little what others might think.
>>29439222
Seriously nigga?
I got one in the truck, one in the go bag and one on the bed.
Jokes on you, faggot.
I do sleep with mine.
It still smells musty from the LCACs...
>>29442298
>relatively comfortable
confirmed never felt the loving embrace of the Woobie
I forgot mine on COP Charkh when we left :(
>>29448636
its better to of loved and lost then to have never loved at all
>>29439222
Where online would one procure a genuine woobie?
>>29448477
>Dat register
I remember when you first posted
>>29449384
>register
kek
And yeah, I've been here a long time.
Nope I use an over sized hoody.
>>29446440
yeah but that wasn't a real war though
>>29448477
momsbasement/10
>>29440301
same here
so got the wife and kids their own
now every time extended family comes to visit ours disappear
Just ordered brand new woobie from eBay for $29. I never served so not sure if I'm allowed to enjoy my new purchase
>>29448477
So that radiator hasn't killed you in your sleep yet? I'm impressed.
I have one in my get home bag. Have a normal comforter on my bed because women like that stuff.
>be Swiss Army
>tfw the only equivalent to the woobie we have is the synthetic sleeping bag liner we call "blue condom"
>tfw no comfy ever in the cold winter and too hot to sleep in the summer
>a-at least we get a soft jacket we can use as a pillow. Th-that's the same, right?
>>29452239
>Buy US issue poncho liner
>Take poncho liner to the field
>Enjoy poncho liner
>>29442269
Same, did 4 in the Corps and this is the first time I've ever heard "woobie". Hooah thing I suppose.
>>29452266
Damn that's brilliant, anon. I think I'll do it right away!
(Kidding aside, I was just lamenting the lack of standard-issue Teddy-Bear-like equipment. I'll probably buy one by the next time I'm called to service).
>>29451890
I wish. That'd mean I wouldn't be paying out my ass in rent.
>>29452030
We have a mutual understanding, the radiator and I.
>>29448477
AHhahaha I remember you and your thread where everyone sperg'd the fuck out over your precarious radiator
>>29452420
Hey radiator man, how does it feel to be /k/ famous?
>>29439222
I stepped up my game
>>29447688
Yuuuup
3/3 to be specific
Every infantryman imn the field has seen the woobie's cousin, the smoker's jacket.
>armpit vents so you can move (for a bit) with it
>fits under ACU and stays hidden
>best pillow while woobie is used as blanket
>warms up fast as fuck
>don't feel any wind, EVER
>almost half the prixe of a woobie
Gents, if you live on post or near post, run. Run fast to a surplus store and get a smokers jacket!
>>29452593
meh.
>>29452754
>2001+15
>packing snivel gear.
Please m8
>>29452798
>not being comfy at all times because of some internet meme version of manliness
Look at this individual and feel sad his father was absent.
>>29452798
Someones never deployed
>BREAK BREAK BREAK
>I HAVE A MEDEVAC REQUEST, OVER
Retard, it gets so fucking cold on Afghanistan that I could wear my smokers jacket, waffles, polypros, a shemagh, beanie, 2 layers of gloves, cools winter boots, while sharing a woobie with the guy with me and still hate my life. IN A GUARD TOWER where the wind can't cut through everything.
As far as training goes, snivel gear is to use as a pillow and to throw on when you're conducting hygeine or guard duty.
Welcome to real life.
>>29452900
>shemagh
You know that's fucking shit for cold weather use, and you use it anyway.
> GUARD TOWER where the wind can't cut through everything.
Welcome to equipment made by the lowest bidder.
>>29439231
Nah, someone just found out what it is and they think it's the coolest thing ever.
Has anyone ever lined their poncho with a poncho liner? We weren't allowed to use ponchos some I'm curious
>>29439222
>mfw laying on my woobie in bed right now
>>29448477
Hey I remember yoU!
>>29446440
what company?
> cockinhalers by god!!!!
>>29454754
I used to do it up in a grunt roll before we stopped using butt-packs. It's terrible to try to sleep in. Try it. You'll make a disgusted face and throw it off and not even untie them until the next day.
>>29448477
I figured you'd be on /pol/ around this time of night.
>>29448477
radiator jokes aside, what is wrong with your door knob
>>29448477
I RECOGNIZE THAT FUTON YOU BOUGHT IT AT WALMART
