Posted on Feb 6, 2016
Don't you wish they would bring back the effective Tiger Stripe uniform of the Vietnam War era?
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I am one that eventually has to buy the new Operational Camoflage Uniform to replace the rock quarry camo scheme ACU that was approved in 2003. Don't you miss the BDU we wore for over 25 years? Do some of you vets wish we could again wear the Tiger Stripe Uniform that Special Ops and montangards wore during the Vietnam war? It seems each new version is just that much less durable yet costly!
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MAJ Javier Rivera
LTC (Join to see) - What happens with all research data an why the silly selection? My unpolitical correct answer: someone got paid!
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
I spent 8 years with the Marine Corps. It is just a matter of pride. I felt that I earned that title.
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MSgt (Join to see)
SSG(P) (Join to see) - You can still be a Marine and have a common uniform. I'd be alright with minor distinguishing features.
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
We had this common uniform when I first got in it was very distracting at first. It would get that way now that the bases are going to joint bases.
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They might have been Special Forces LTC (Join to see). I don't recall ever seeing one during my year in Vietnam. I did like the jungle fatigues we wore!
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SFC William Farrell
SGT Philip Roncari - An old one but funny and true Philip. Heck I was never in the bush; I let my twin brother do that for me. We were happy to haul his unit around in Shithooks and Slicks!
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SGT Philip Roncari
SFC William Farrell-I applaud your good fortune,tried to get my older Air Force Master Sergeant brother to do a ITT with me (he was stationed in Berlin at the time) He declined and after had a good laugh about it ,I really wouldn’t had left my guys anyway ,as far as Shithooks and Slicks liked the ride but couldn’t wait to get off those damn things they were dangerous!
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SFC William Farrell
SGT Philip Roncari - My twin brother went to Nam at 17 and when he git shelled the first night there, he told him he was 17. We were Gung Ho so he didn't tell them when he got orders. Shipped him to Okinawa til he turned 18 and then back to Nam. I was in Korea and had to reenlist to get to Nam cause if he was going I was going! I did my RVN training on Oki so saw him there then got to Nam a month before him. Went down to Saigon to pick him up as I was at Camp Eagle where he got stationed. He had severe asthma attack running up and down the aShau Valley and they medevvaced him to Japan and then the states. A few weeks later his squad and some others in platoon were shot down in a Shithook, second worst air disaster of the war. If he wasn't medevacced out, 99% chance he would have been on that bird.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SFC William Farrell-Great to hear both of you got out of that place,be well Brother.
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Nice picture but inaccurate. Wore these in the field w/o the trinkets. Tiger stripes were okay but they weren't durable on longer missions, stayed wet and had to have pockets added to make them functional in field gear. Standard issue jungle fatigues were a much better field uniform.
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thanks CPT. What do you mean by trinkets? do you mean unit patches, rank and branch?
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CPT Jim Schwebach
Yes on the trinkets. No rank, no unit patches, no branch, no badges - they kind of defeated the purpose.
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LTC (Join to see)
CPT Jim Schwebach - just like the Russian volunteers and sympathizers LOL in the Crimea no patches, no bumper numbers on vehicles but newer tanks not made in the Ukraine...
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