Re: [MV] Wondering About Vietnam Era Uniforms.........

From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 14:12:15 PDT


does anyone have source for "Westmoreland" fatigue cap, in the 60's lots of
guys had them from PX - gave the "squared up look to fatigue cap

E

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen L Dussetschleger" <dussetschleger@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Wondering About Vietnam Era Uniforms.........

> Its a little more in depth than just which one. Do you want "in
> country" ? Staeside ? Field uniform or other ?
> my buddies up here who do Vietnam Re-enacting ( MV contnent, they use
> my brothers M151A2 ) have a lot of knowledge about that era . They
> educated me somewhat on the uniform I was wearing for vehicle displays.
> Turns out I was wearing a really scarce pristine example of a "type II"
> uniform. These had "asalnt" pockets, hidden buttons, etc. Complicated,
> but they knew. Turns out I had come by them from my Dad who was there in
> '65-'66.
> Regular cotton fatigues can be found anywhere. The later Type III's
> aren't hard to find either. UNLESS your an abnormaly large guy or
> something else.
> If you need, I can give you a number of one of these guys to 'splain it
> further.
> Steve
>
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