Bob Hudson Posted August 28, 2016 Share #2001 Posted August 28, 2016 Airborne medical brigade: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted August 28, 2016 Share #2002 Posted August 28, 2016 Airborne medical brigade: 1.jpg Bob, It's the 44th Medical Brigade which supported the XVIII Airborne Corps. For me DCU Field Jackets are a bit like WWII overcoats, they are nice, but take up so much space that one or two examples is about as many and I can handle. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchtrader864 Posted August 28, 2016 Share #2003 Posted August 28, 2016 Air Force Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchtrader864 Posted August 28, 2016 Share #2004 Posted August 28, 2016 20th Engineer bde abn combat patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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patchtrader864 Posted August 28, 2016 Share #2006 Posted August 28, 2016 Marines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
355fg Posted September 4, 2016 Share #2007 Posted September 4, 2016 1st Armored Division with theater made patch on left shoulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
355fg Posted September 4, 2016 Share #2008 Posted September 4, 2016 82nd Airborne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
355fg Posted September 4, 2016 Share #2009 Posted September 4, 2016 1st Logistical Command Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryPicker1941 Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2010 Posted September 9, 2016 Here's a new SF DCU I just picked up recently. Unfortunately the jacket is missing the English/ Arabic name tapes, one qualification badge, and the rank insignia. On the plus side it has a theatre made SF patch w/ airborne tab, AMC patch w/ SF tab, qualification badges, and the one US made patch is the army tape which appears to have been dyed tan. Thanks for looking Noah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryPicker1941 Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2011 Posted September 9, 2016 Left pocket missing one qualification badge (does anyone have any guesses?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryPicker1941 Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2012 Posted September 9, 2016 SF combat patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryPicker1941 Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2013 Posted September 9, 2016 AMC patch with SF tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMarineCorps Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2014 Posted September 9, 2016 Here's a new SF DCU I just picked up recently. Unfortunately the jacket is missing the English/ Arabic name tapes, one qualification badge, and the rank insignia. On the plus side it has a theatre made SF patch w/ airborne tab, AMC patch w/ SF tab, qualification badges, and the one US made patch is the army tape which appears to have been dyed tan. Thanks for looking Noah Noah, You know how to pick them up, don't you? First the ASF patches and know this?! Tell me your secret... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2015 Posted September 9, 2016 Noah, Those are some great DBDUs, DCUs, especially the last one with the theater made Army Material Command and Special Forces patches. Possibly worn by someone who was working at the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center (aka Natick Labs) which tested uniforms and personal equipment in all environments. If you are not a member of our Facebook group, I encourage you to join and share your photos there as well: http://www.facebook.com/groups/DesertUniform Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryPicker1941 Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2016 Posted September 9, 2016 Noah, You know how to pick them up, don't you? First the ASF patches and know this?! Tell me your secret... Lol! I've been getting pretty lucky lately. I also have a couple of desert air crew jackets that should be coming in the mail today, and one of them has a pretty nice hand-guided 10th Mountain division patch on it (been looking for a DCU one for awhile now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryPicker1941 Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2017 Posted September 9, 2016 Noah, Those are some great DBDUs, DCUs, especially the last one with the theater made Army Material Command and Special Forces patches. Possibly worn by someone who was working at the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center (aka Natick Labs) which tested uniforms and personal equipment in all environments. If you are not a member of our Facebook group, I encourage you to join and share your photos there as well: [url=http://www.facebook.com/groups/DesertUniform]http://www.facebook.com/groups/DesertUniform[/ur] Kevin That's a cool possibility that I didn't even think of! Really awesome and informative Facebook group by the way. I don't have any social media right now, but if I make a FB account I'll be sure to join it. P.S. I'm planning on pre-ordering your book very soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2018 Posted September 9, 2016 That's a cool possibility that I didn't even think of! Really awesome and informative Facebook group by the way. I don't have any social media right now, but if I make a FB account I'll be sure to join it. P.S. I'm planning on pre-ordering your book very soon! Thanks much. We set it up the FB group to advertise "Desert Uniforms, Patches, and Insignia of the US Armed Forces" and its turned out to be much more than that. Desert uniform and patch collectors World-wide came out of the shadows and started posting some amazing uniforms and insignia. Not a week goes by without seeing some truly amazing DBBUs, DCUs or hand guided patches that someone just found in a thrift shop or flea market or had in storage for a decade or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted September 9, 2016 Share #2019 Posted September 9, 2016 1st Logistical Command 355fg, That's a nice 6-color DBDU with what we affectionately call the "leaning outhouse" or "leaning s**thouse" patch. Some have said that the entire 1st Corps Support Command (COSCOM) wore the Airborne tab, but only selected units within the command were authorized to wear the tab, such as the rigger companies. Your uniform is a perfect example of this. One support battalion in the 1st COSCOM even had the motto, "Superlegs Can Do" to reflect their non-airborne "leg" status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turko Posted September 10, 2016 Share #2020 Posted September 10, 2016 Left pocket missing one qualification badge (does anyone have any guesses?) It would have to be either Air Assault, HALO, or Scuba. Those are really the only ones that would fit based on order of precedence. My money is actually on HALO, though, based on the spacing; that Pathfinder is pretty far off to the side, and HALO is a big-ish badge. It looks like too much room on the pocket to be AA or Scuba. EDIT: Technically I guess it could be a Rigger badge, but you don't see many SF guys with Rigger badges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted September 10, 2016 Share #2021 Posted September 10, 2016 It would have to be either Air Assault, HALO, or Scuba. Those are really the only ones that would fit based on order of precedence. My money is actually on HALO, though, based on the spacing; that Pathfinder is pretty far off to the side, and HALO is a big-ish badge. It looks like too much room on the pocket to be AA or Scuba. EDIT: Technically I guess it could be a Rigger badge, but you don't see many SF guys with Rigger badges. I tend to agree with Turko. Without seeing the contract date, I'm assuming the uniform was worn in the 1990s. The Military Free Fall Parachute Badge was authorized locally in 1994 by the US Army Special Operations Command, it wasn't approved for Army-wide use until 1997. Which means that a soldier would have been required to take it off of his uniform when assigned outside USASOC. So it's quite possible he removed it when he was assigned to the Army Materiel Command (AMC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo Posted September 15, 2016 Share #2022 Posted September 15, 2016 82nd Airborne DCU with glint tape pinned to the sleeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo Posted September 15, 2016 Share #2023 Posted September 15, 2016 82nd Airborne DCU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo Posted September 15, 2016 Share #2024 Posted September 15, 2016 Tan CIVPU (Coat, Civilian Protective Uniform) jacket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbranch Posted October 6, 2016 Share #2025 Posted October 6, 2016 I haven't posted any DCU jackets in a while, but I thought this was in interesting example. Picked this up at a gun show back in January. US Army NATO patched DCU from the LTC's 2005 deployment to Iraq as a NATO advisor assigned to Multi-National Force Iraq (MNF-I). He later served as an instructor at the Command and General Staff college in Leavenworth, which is likely how the jacket found its way to Kansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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