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Unusual ssi and Chocolate Chip camo


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Right as rain.

 

The jacket is the harder to find "chocolate chip" desert camouflage. The pattern worked great in the US Southwest...stood out like a neon light in the Middle East.

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It's double patched, combat and organizational, so worn by a GI who most likely was in on the Panama operation in 89, most likely a non 11 B or C as there is no CIB, like an Engineer, Artillery etc etc, or as a stretch, a GI who was in Vietnam with the 1st Brigade 5th Infantry Division, which was there from mid 1968 to earl-sh 1971 (No ranks present so can't tell really on this last point).

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You are awarded a combat patch after being in country for 24 hours I believe. So more then likely it was from ds.

Yes but the 5th Div wasn't in on DS, they were but ......

 

From the 5th Div WIKI

In August 1990, the 5th Division was alerted to prepare for deployment in support of Desert Shield the Louisiana NG 's 256th Inf Bde mobilized as the 'round-out' third brigade in November. The Division began sending units to train at Ft Hood Texas at and established a division headquarters-forward (5ID-(Fwd)) at the Texas base to prepare for deployment. The plan was to get all elements of the 256th Brigade up to standards, and then complete a rotation at Ft Irwin California, before the division deployed to Southwest Asia. The 5ID (fwd) immediately encountered problems with the 256th Brigade units, and training began to suffer as a result. Several members of the 256th Brigade went AWOL (Absent without leave), while others refused to train as directed. These delays prevented the Division from deploying to Fort Irwin, and the subsequent rapid start and end of Desert Storm effectively kept the Division from ultimately deploying to Southwest Asia in any capacity.All units returned to Fort Polk by March 1991, with the 256th Brigade demobilization occurring later in May of that same year.

 

So perhaps this coat is for when elemts of the 5th Div might of been sent later to the middle east, training I suppose.

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