TrenchfootJoe66 Posted October 6, 2014 Share #1 Posted October 6, 2014 I was looking at some photos of 2nd ID soldiers in Korea during the Vietnam era. Apparently tiger stripes were in demand in Korea as well as I found lots of photos which clearly show Tiger boonies being worn. None of these guys had combat patches for Vietnam units or even CIBs, so I don't think they were acquired that way. I guess they were available downtown. Here are few examples. If anybody has any more, feel free to share them. Thank !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMI88 Posted October 6, 2014 Share #2 Posted October 6, 2014 Very interesting! I guess this just goes to show the locals will always figure out how to make a buck off a GI (and GIs always want to look cool). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Herd Posted October 6, 2014 Share #3 Posted October 6, 2014 I worked with the South Korean Air Force 1970/71. I found a Tiger striped boonie behind an equipment rack in a Korean radio shack, it went in my tool bag and is buried in a box now. Very few Americans got in the Korean radio shacks so I figured a Korean lost it. The guys on the teams I worked with wore fatigue caps or baseball caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted October 6, 2014 Share #4 Posted October 6, 2014 Tigers were manufactured in Korea for Vietnamese forces. Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gimp Posted October 8, 2014 Share #5 Posted October 8, 2014 just want to share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrenchfootJoe66 Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share #6 Posted October 8, 2014 Tigers were manufactured in Korea for Vietnamese forces. Owen Indeed. You'd think more of the stuff would have made its way down to the ville and into the hands of GIs. Of course it may well be that it was more common than we think. Nobody pays much attention to the wealth of period photo documentation available on the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrenchfootJoe66 Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share #7 Posted October 8, 2014 just want to shareSuper cool image. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrenchfootJoe66 Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share #8 Posted October 10, 2014 Heres another Capt Chuck Randall 1st SFG(A) Detachment Korea circa 1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted October 10, 2014 Share #9 Posted October 10, 2014 Thats a great Shot . owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageproductions Posted October 10, 2014 Share #10 Posted October 10, 2014 In the late 1980's, while prowling the shop area outside Angeles City / Clark Air Force base, I still found original tiger stripe boonie hats and shirts hanging in shops there. Not PI patterns, but good Japanese made and Viet made examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogtown Posted October 14, 2014 Share #11 Posted October 14, 2014 In the late 1980's, while prowling the shop area outside Angeles City / Clark Air Force base, I still found original tiger stripe boonie hats and shirts hanging in shops there. Not PI patterns, but good Japanese made and Viet made examples. There were still some floating around in Kinville (outside Camp Hansen on Okinawa) back in '87 while I was there. Not so much hats and shirts, but garment bags and bowling ball bags. One shop even had bolts of tiger cloth - wish I had bought that stuff now. By the way, that photo of the Capt is very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted November 29, 2018 Share #12 Posted November 29, 2018 Anyone got any more odd ball tiger shots like the guys in the snow ? owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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