How do you pronouce PASGT?

[mikie]

Howdy,

I am slowly trying to learn about moderm military equipment. Until a couple of years ago, Korea War stuff was the most modern I had handle on. So how the heck is PASGT pronounced in polite converstion? Is it said as it is spelled or spelled out letter by letter? Silly question, I'm sure, but it IS me asking. Hopefully more intelligent questions sure to follow. Thanks!

Mikie

[RedLegGI]

P-A-S-G-T is fine, or K-Pot (Kevlar Pot)

[Retired Army Noncom]

Howdy,

I am slowly trying to learn about moderm military equipment. Until a couple of years ago, Korea War stuff was the most modern I had handle on. So how the heck is PASGT pronounced in polite converstion? Is it said as it is spelled or spelled out letter by letter? Silly question, I'm sure, but it IS me asking. Hopefully more intelligent questions sure to follow. Thanks!

Mikie

There was a usage of Plt/Sgt at one time, short for Platoon Sergeant which is a title/position and not a rank. Just plain old Pasgt, I've never heard of.

[VolunteerArmoury]

When I was in the Army it was just a helmet, K-pot, pot, dome, or Kevlar & the vest just called was a Kevlar or flak vest. Id be surprised if any of the folks I served with knew what PASGT was. I simply sound out the letters or refer to it was how we did when I was in.

[Retired Army Noncom]

P-A-S-G-T is fine, or K-Pot (Kevlar Pot)

I was well into retirement before things got plastic.

[12A54]

Like many Army acronyms, that one might have been used in written documents, but not by average Soldiers. We just called it a helmet. Infrequently I heard some refer to it as a “K-pot”. It was the only version in use, so there was no need to distinguish it by such a specific reference, much less an awkward acronym.

[thorin6]

I was at Fort Bragg when I got my PASGT helmet. We never called it by that acronym, and it wasn't until I started going on this forum about 7 years ago that I even knew that PASGT meant. We just called it Kevlar helmet, and the vests (worn during Desert Storm) were simply flak vests.

[Bob Hudson]

I believe the Marines just call it a "kevlar." A couple of young Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton once stopped by my flea market booth and were intrigued by my M1 helmet, or - as one of the Marines called it - "a steel kevlar." To him any helmet was a "kevlar."

 

I don't think anyone has ever pronounced PASGT outloud: in my head I always see it as, "P-A sergeant."

[doyler]

Kevlar is what they been called for years.

[milsurp_scout_14]

I've always just said P-A-S-J-U-T as one awkward syllable...I think that just generated from my brain though. Never heard anyone else actually say it.

[Ronnie]

I just pronounce it.....pazsssggggggt. But when I do it sorta sounds like ppppzzzzsgggtttt.

[BEAST]

I was at Fort Bragg when I got my PASGT helmet. We never called it by that acronym, and it wasn't until I started going on this forum about 7 years ago that I even knew that PASGT meant. We just called it Kevlar helmet, and the vests (worn during Desert Storm) were simply flak vests.

Ditto. Never heard it called anything but a Kevlar until I heard collectors discussing it.

[VolunteerArmoury]

Went I last deployed I was told to take a new helmet. This was in 2010 but I was in TRADOC land so I kept using a k-pot or PASGT with a ACU cover & an updated chinstrap suspension. All of the newer helmets no matter an ACH or MICH I heard called an ACH or most commonly a Mitch or just helmet regardless of what it actually was.

[Camaro69427]

I've always said it PASGAT, adding the A between the G and T. Don't know why, just what I've always heard it called.

[doyler]

How do pronounce PASGT....KEVLAR

[Cap Camouflage Pattern I]

Spell it out.

[mikie]

Ha! Thanks for all the replies. They made my day. As a student of history and implements of destruction, I am always thrilled to hear this kind of stuff from those of you who help make history and use those implements. As a casual collector just getting my feet wet on the subject, I was afraid of looking foolish refering to the helmets as "pasgt" or "p a s g t". Guess it's nothing to worry about. Heaven knows there are plenty of other ways I can manage to look foolish. Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

Mikie

[Blacksmith]

Called a "kevlar" by those that wore them, and a host of things by those that collect them.

 

"Pass Gee Tee" is what I hear most frequently.

[General Colt]

I simply call it a "kevlar" or "pass gee tee" like said above.

[Fly USMC]

Concur with.... "Kevlar" I don't think there is an English or even human translation for PASGT

[Retired Army Noncom]

Ha! Thanks for all the replies. They made my day. As a student of history and implements of destruction, I am always thrilled to hear this kind of stuff from those of you who help make history and use those implements. As a casual collector just getting my feet wet on the subject, I was afraid of looking foolish refering to the helmets as "pasgt" or "p a s g t". Guess it's nothing to worry about. Heaven knows there are plenty of other ways I can manage to look foolish. Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

Mikie

In comparison....a few things I'd miss if I had to wear one, I couldn't cook in it, heat water using C-4 to shave in, can't sit it on the back of my head, doesn't have the form on my arse to sit in it easy when mud is four inches deep.....the list goes on and on. Stick with the steel pots lad, there's more History in dem der steal pots!!!

[GIl Sanow]

I think they were called "Fritz" helmets early on because if the resemblance to German helmets.

 

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[Ray175INF]

 

Hahahaha, uhhh?

In comparison....a few things I'd miss if I had to wear one, I couldn't cook in it, heat water using C-4 to shave in, can't sit it on the back of my head, doesn't have the form on my arse to sit in it easy when mud is four inches deep.....the list goes on and on. Stick with the steel pots lad, there's more History in dem der steal pots!!!

[MWalsh]

How do pronounce PASGT....KEVLAR

This. I never heard it called anything but this.

 

Listen to Doyler, he and his goats are prophets.

[Ray175INF]

Same, In the Marines we always called them Kevlars, In the Army it was a mix, some of the guys called them Kevlars, while others called them ACHs or MICH helmets.

 

Ray

 

 

When I was in the Army it was just a helmet, K-pot, pot, dome, or Kevlar & the vest just called was a Kevlar or flak vest. Id be surprised if any of the folks I served with knew what PASGT was. I simply sound out the letters or refer to it was how we did when I was in.

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