well first somehow the U.S. marine torso rigging for the equipment is undone, which is pissing me off to no end til fixed.
And it's 3 AM here, dammit. Rolling the dice if copying complete then pasting rigging fixes it on the mesh I want.
Yeah it worked, good thing I got backups for reference if a mesh has issues again. Pasting the rigging of the old straps that were rigged fixed it in-game. I hate rigging, to the 9th circle of Hell for that matter.
Just the tiny belt buckle now needing the brown straps from before or removal, need to ask what to do with.