I am not a minute into your video an can tell its going to be an excellent one! I was born in 63, so bye 70 I remember watching an supporting our men over there. PROUD to say I in 1983 became an 11B in the US Army an served with some of my hero's! God bless!
The weird tube on the shoulder was part of the M1956 Flack jacket…. A fabric sleeve covering a length of rope, it is a rifle sling retainer. ( so it doesn’t slide off your shoulder so easily) Empty Claymore bags were also used for M16 magazines. Be careful with the bug juice( insect repellent) its NOT good for you… the stuff will desolve some plastics! You don’t want it on your skin in 2023, use Modern formulas out in the woods. The M1956 canvas buttpack is highly useful, even when combined with the universal carry strap … even useful in the civilian world. The later Nylon M1961 is slightly simpler in features, but just as useful as a general purpose Carrier.
4:25 Those tubes are cardboard shipping containers for mortar rounds, I believe 81mm rounds used in the M29 mortar. That same style is still used today for not just mortars, but frag and smoke grenades; they’re commonly referred to as “pringle cans” on the collectors market.
My idea for the gear under flak system was probably just so one could take off the flak for whatever reason and still retain gear You can fight without a flak but you still need gear
This is a pretty sweet setup I don't really know much about the gear used in Vietnam but this is a pretty good history lesson, I'm really into your content it's really good.
The Combined Action Program Marines often wore Tiger Stripe, including cover. ERDL were really something at the time, but they faded crazy fast if you washed them any at all.
@@SteelPot1970 I used to have one of the biggest nam collections in the uk 🇬🇧 but have sold a lot off over the years. I just do infantry kit and usmc now and the dress uniforms as they are under appreciated in my opinion. Good chatting to you.
ERDL experimental research and development laboratories existing from WW2 research into camouflage effectiveness. Green dominant low lands , lime leaf 🌿 , brown dominant central Highlands , wet season, dry season variants. Which influenced M-81 woodland classic cold war 1976 central American brown dominant- 1981 - 1983 , European patterns , in different percentages blown up in shapes, from the original ERDL experimental.
