Vietnam era beercan DUI collection

[mmerc20]

I just picked up this riker of Vietnam era beercan DUIs. There are some VN units included and the Specialist-5 pair are pretty unique. I have never seen any like that before.

 

Mike

[River Patrol]

Good stuff....I see a nice Radio Research beercan!

[Tonomachi]

Nice pick up! I like your MDCAT pin.

[firefighter]

Nice collection.The 1st one looks like a PSYOP unit.The one with Sylvester the cat is possibly an AF unit? Is the one next to the 5th DIV for a golf tournament?

[439th Signal Battalion]

Great collection; I really like the SP5 insignia.

 

 

 

 

[gwb123]

One reason that you rarely see the Vietnamese made rank pins is they were fragile and the pins broke off the thin metal frames constantly. I get the impression most troops just went with sewn on versions.

 

That chevron in the upper right looks to be a rank for the Vietnamese Air Force. I think this may have been worn as an equivalent rank badge by US personnel training the Vietnamese, because the Vietnamese typically wore cloth rank chevrons.

[RAZGY]

wow, nice collection. i see my colors of the 1st ID - 1st ID Hq, 4th cavalry, 4th medical, 16th infantry, 1st engineer, 2nd infantry regiments and battalions. great

[Salvage Sailor]

Very nice pick up,

 

Here are a few RVN made chevrons from my personal collection for comparison

 

 

[mvmhm]

Is there an easy way to tell if they're RVN-made?? Obviously the two "square" ones stick out, but the others look...."normal".

 

 

Mark sends