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Kammo-man, I don't know if you get a response from Nkomo, but if not feel free to use my pictures. If you need any more (or the same pictures in higher resolution), do not hesitate to ask !

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By chance, do you have a copy of this document ? I tried to download it, but the link is dead (there's no file to download).

 

I'm currently writing a detailed article about US body armor / flak vest since the American Civil War to present days and I search some informations and pictures. If you guy have anything that may help, I'll really appreciate you send me the pictures or infos at [email protected] :) THANKS

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Cap Camouflage Pattern I

I thought I'd bump this thread with some Natick Lab photos of its. I know this is very old but it is also very interesting. Hopefully this doesn't annoy anybody, if so, sorry!

 

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These are from the same photoshoot as the one in the document Craig Pickrall posted. Dated December 17th 1974, although sometimes the dates are wrong.

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Cap Camouflage Pattern I

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August 10th 1977

By this point they have dropped the reinforcement on the front of the shoulder cover

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Cap Camouflage Pattern I

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August 10th 1977

Also interesting is the helmet cover is one piece of cloth, with no center seam and no foliage slits.

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Cap Camouflage Pattern I

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August 1st 1978

For some reason they have the reinforcements again, maybe it was an alternate design? Maybe the date was wrong?

Also check out the weird helmet cover.

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Cap Camouflage Pattern I

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August 1st 1978

 

That's all, except for 2 that are too large to post and I don't feel are worth the hassle of resizing because they don't show anything new.

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Hello everyone, 

I will appreciate your support to identify following pasgt vest in  "ERDL or RDF" camo.

The tag has strange DSA number DSA100-80-C-0209. With the year 1980 it should be DLA. I could not find any result for this number on Google.  According to the nato size number should be medium, however there is a big stamp SMALL. 

When I washed it, on the back kevlar  appeared stamp " medium, lot#, DSA".

 

I found other vests in woodland and with the same tag available on eBay. 

 

Do you know more about this vest?

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here's my new curiosity : a blue unicolor "Body Armor, Ground Troops CM [Conventional Munitions] and ICM [Improved Conventional Munitions] Fragmentation Protective Vest"

 

I've already posted my new purchase in another topic:

 

 

 

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On 3/24/2022 at 6:57 PM, Joe-sp said:

Hello everyone, 

I will appreciate your support to identify following pasgt vest in  "ERDL or RDF" camo.

The tag has strange DSA number DSA100-80-C-0209. With the year 1980 it should be DLA. I could not find any result for this number on Google.  According to the nato size number should be medium, however there is a big stamp SMALL. 

When I washed it, on the back kevlar  appeared stamp " medium, lot#, DSA".

 

I found other vests in woodland and with the same tag available on eBay. 

 

Do you know more about this vest?

20220324_110239.jpg.7f52e344c8a82bb8fe6a2b39183f87e2.jpg

20220324_110252.jpg.256c8dc23540337dd12740c8d0f97292.jpg20220324_110230.jpg.a3f8ecba436eb41ac8c6120ee42e7ad8.jpg20220324_110938.jpg.0e83eb2b4d2bbc7a25afe0115ee657bb.jpg

 

This is a standard PASGT Vest but it seems to me it's an early production. Very nice ! 

 

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