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Here is the world’s ugliest RDF surplus store utility cut shirt.

Both arms are misprinted one received a few more coatings of ink.

It’s worth mentioning it’s good to see the black was the first striking.

Manufactured by Wynn who were also a government contractor for other items.

It’s hard to see how this actually made it out into the marketplace but it’s a funny old world sometimes.

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Cap Camouflage Pattern I

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"The 173rd Airborne soldiers at Long Range Patrol (LRRP) Training learning about the 'Five Points of Performance' "

 

These are experimental as evidenced by the epaulets visible on many of the soldiers and the waste adjustment tab visible in the bottom right.

 

Photo from the U.S. Army Aviation Museum Volunteer Archivists Collection of The Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University

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I thought I might add a small contribution to this fantastic topic. A Marine top from a friend who enlisted in the mid 70s and used it. I am not certain of the manufacture date but I didn't see one similar for Marines in the topic so I thought I would put this example in for now.   Scott

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Members of 1 Commando Regt wearing Erdl and an eclectic mix of cam. Probably the 80s
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Great shot buddy!


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Here's a lightly tailored Marines RDF jacket I found yesterday.  

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The lower pockets were removed and the back was taken in with darts for a V-shaped silhouette.  I thought Marines were not allowed to alter their uniforms?

 

It was found together with this other heavily used, unmodified jacket in small regular that is also notable for being made of several different ERDL fabric colorways.  The collars on both have the same pin hole arrangement.  

 

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Hey all, 

 

Does anyone know if there was a specification for ERDL? Kind of like Mil-C-43468 for woodland or mil-c-44436 for various nyco camo fabrics.

 

cheers

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Bob Hudson
11 hours ago, 63 RECON said:

Hey all, 

 

Does anyone know if there was a specification for ERDL? Kind of like Mil-C-43468 for woodland or mil-c-44436 for various nyco camo fabrics.

 

cheers

 

Is that something covered by the STOCK NUMBER?

 

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On 2/11/2021 at 9:40 PM, kammo-man said:

Here is the world’s ugliest RDF surplus store utility cut shirt.

Both arms are misprinted one received a few more coatings of ink.

It’s worth mentioning it’s good to see the black was the first striking.

Manufactured by Wynn who were also a government contractor for other items.

It’s hard to see how this actually made it out into the marketplace but it’s a funny old world sometimes.

owen

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This beauty over on eBay beats all for misprints 🤪

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Amateur Vietnam Collector
On 8/21/2020 at 10:31 PM, kammo-man said:

 

All things ERDL

 

I was out and about in Hollywood today doing Hollywood stuff and went to one of my favorite vintage shops and Came across a nice 25th ID leaf pattern shirt that’s named with in country patches mixed with twill type.

It’s always a joy to me to find Cammo in the raw and this one has it all.

 

I also noticed we do not have a proper go 2 ERDL thread so here goes

 

 

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My wife’s father was in the 25th and sadly died way to young from after effects of agent orange so Andy this thread is dedicated to you and the memory of all vets who have passed from AO.

 

Owen

 

 

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Hi,

 

First, I have a fascination with special forces uniforms.  Second, I’m not an expert on ERDL uniforms.  I’m wondering why this special forces ERDL jacket on eBay hasn’t sold yet.  I’m wondering if 1) it’s not authentic or 2) people don’t want it because it was manufactured in 1969, when the special forces were moving out.  Here’s the eBay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324098561820

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