Bandolier

A bandolier was a medium to large item of utilitarian clothing that the owner could wear around their left or right shoulder down across their torso, or as a large belt. Normally worn by military or paramilitary forces as well as mercenaries and others who needed large supplies of ammunition, bandoliers consisted of many ammunition pouches sewn together or snapped to a belt. Though typically used to carry extra ammunition for blaster-type and other ranged weaponry, bandoliers could also carry grenades, supplies of syntherope, and other sorts of items useful on the battlefield or in covert operations. They were also sometimes called "utility belts" for this same reason.

Wookiees often wore bandoliers to carry supplies and ammunition for their bowcasters. Among the equipment stored in the bandoliers were power packs, canisters of blaster gas, and ammunition cartridges carrying six quarrels each.

Amongst notable wearers of bandoliers were Wookiees including Chewbacca, Clone Commander Gree, clone trooper Jek, Embo, Boba and Jango Fett, Alderaanian soldiers including General Gesselle Organa and Captain Balic Cormac, Galactic Republic troopers including members of the Havoc Squad, Sith Empire soldiers including Admiral Fraabaal and Commander Lankyln as well as Majors Bessiker and Faradin, Moffs including Dracen and Graham as well as Pyron, as well as members of the Krozurbian War Council and Tusken Raiders of Tatooine who often carries ammunition and currency as part of its contents.

Text and facts from the “Bandolier/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.