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Big Boss
Sneaking Suit
The sneaking suit wore by Big Boss in GZ is the same as the one he uses in Peace Walker. It is fictional and has no direct real-world reference. It may based on some diving suit.
Night-Vision Goggles
The night-vision goggles are almost the second notable visual feature just next to the bandana of the “Snakes”. The night-vision goggles used in the GZ fused two real-world NVGs in one: AN/PVS-5 and AN/PVS-7.
The lens and main body part of the NVG are based on AN/PVS-7, and the face piece comes from AN/PVS-5.
In the game, the NVG vision is more like thermal fusion night vision. Objects with heat like armored vehicle and personnel are high-lighted in the NVG vision.
SPIE Harness
In the game, Big Boss infiltrates and exfiltrates the mission area by chopper. So we can see he wears a set of SPIE Harness: Special Patrol Insertion / Extraction Harness.
There is a problem on the model: the harness he wears has no attaching strap (the “tail”).
Webbings
Let’s focus on the belt, Boss doesn’t carry too much gears on his belt: a magazine pouch, a Walkman (Sony WM-R55), a canteen, a field pack, a combat knife and a holster for carrying pistol.
The magazine pouch comes from M-1956 Load-Carrying Equipment, I assume my readers are all familiar with it.
On Boss’s hip he carries a Training Field Pack (or more common name, buttpack). It’s a kind of small bag for carrying supplies that not for emergency, such as poncho, rations, extra ammo, etc. Boss carries his field pack on the left hip instead of ordinary center, makes room for the knife and the rifle on his shoulder.
Kazuhira Miller
Miller’s Appearance Source
In GZ, Miller looks the same as he in Peace Walker: sunglasses, yellow scarf, olive drab combat uniform, leather belt with large holster, all of these are refer to one point: Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from the classic movie Apocalypse Now.
Combat Uniform
Not like the movie, Miller’s combat uniform isn’t ordinary Tropical Combat Uniform, it’s Flyer’s Hot Weather Shirt/Trousers. It’s fire resistant. The game modified the shirt’s pockets, makes them tilted like TCU’s pockets.
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Marines
The mission area of GZ is in a secret military camp named Camp Omega, it locates in Cuba’s territory. The Marines are the security forces of the camp.
Combat Uniform
The Marines in the game are all wear Tropical Combat Uniform. The webbings are the combination of M-1956 and M-1967.
In the game, most Marines wears TCU in ERDL camouflage. But if you trigger the alarm, you can find the reinforcement Marines wears M-69 Body Armor and TCU in OG-107.
Webbings And Equipment
The webbings Marines wear in GZ are combination of M-1956 and M-1967, or more precise, M-1956 ammo pouch and belt, and M-1967 suspenders.
Then the radio, the Marines use it to call reinforcement.
They are portable radio from PRC-68 family, such as RT-1547/PRC-126 or AN/PRC-128.
PRC-68 Radio Family are a group of portable radios, they equipped USMC in the 1970s, and then Air Force.
Mother Base Members
Body Armor
In the Side Ops “Intel Operative Rescue”, Hideo Kojima Director acts as an intel operator of Mother Base. He wears a Aircrew Body Armor, a.k.a. “Chicken Plate”.
Aircrew Body Armor is the first body armor adopted by the US Army with ceramics as ballistic protective material. In the game the body armor is modified, with the pocket on the front carrier replaced by a piece of Velcro loop pile.
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Headset
The headset used by mother base members are based on David Clark Model H7030.
