Poncho liner

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A poncho liner (often nicknamed a woobie) is a piece of field gear originating in the United States military that can be attached to a standard issue poncho to provide additional warmth, as well as being usable as a blanket, sleeping bag or tarp/protective cover. It consists of quilted nylon with a polyester filling, same materials as the liners for the US military fishtail parka and M65 Field jacket. It is attached to the poncho by means of integral lengths of material which are looped through the poncho's eyelets. Poncho liners were first used by the U.S. military in the Vietnam War. Its official name is "Liner, Wet Weather Poncho". They gained the nickname "woobie" later; that term is conjectured to have derived from the name for a child's security blanket in the 1983 movie Mr. Mom. Another possibility is that "woobie" is a corruption of the Korean word for rain gear, "Ubi," or 우비, referring to the poncho, used by the Korean tailors on US military posts throughout Korea who were asked...

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