Extremely salty graffitied and named Nam’ helmet. Possibly ID’d!

[mikie]

Once you get a steady job you will have money for hobbies. Until you get a place of your own. And a car. And a wife. And a kid. And a dog. Then, even with a paycheck, an extra 40 or even 5 bucks for hobbies was a fond dream for a while for me. I took a bit of a break from active collecting for a while until I was able to get more comfortable with life. If you love the hobby, you will find a way to finance it. It sounds like you are doing the best you can now. I don’t know what your career goals are but my dear daughter got her RN degree just a couple of years ago and her paychecks make me want to faint. Her current “hobby” is travel. She has been on 4 honeymoon trips this year and two more on schedule before the holidays. 
Mikie

[Gear Fanatic]

Yes. I also have a few pieces stored away for car money eventually. I he collecting. It’s really the only thing I do in my free time. So it is very close to my heart in that sense. I’ve always been doing it on a budget. So it’s no worry. Just having something stable is a problem right now. I’ll be able to get a job soon.

[aerialbridge]

13 hours ago, manayunkman said:

I ran out of popcorn.

 Is your messaging out of bandwidth or turned off?  Wanted to ask you about one of your finds. 

[manayunkman]

9 hours ago, aerialbridge said:

 Is your messaging out of bandwidth or turned off?  Wanted to ask you about one of your finds. 

I made some room

[Gear Fanatic]

got an email earlier this week, my Application has been received. hopefully have it back next week with the fee. after this is all done I will likely create a much more clean post showing it off with all the provenance and research etc. thanks all for your interest, can't believe this topic got to 8 page! 

[M1M1]

Gear Fanatic, I sure hope you find the info you're looking for . Keep in mind the records department had a fire years ago and a lot of records where lost to it, my fathers included. I was notified years ago about a hack and mine were lost also so you may never know. Sounds like you have a pretty good start and handle on things, work hard and stay true, keep things in perspective and best of luck

[Gear Fanatic]

Just received my letter in the mail and I got this, I see no price, but it does say that they found his record which Is good. So it didn’t burn, yay!

 

anyways , my next steps are to call them to ask about it. Any suggestions?

[Gear Fanatic]

Anyone have any insight? Kind of flying blind with what I can read in the Internet guiding me. Has anyone received this kind of reply? I haven’t seen one like this. Let me know thanks for the insight!

[aznation]

5 hours ago, Gear Fanatic said:

Anyone have any insight? Kind of flying blind with what I can read in the Internet guiding me. Has anyone received this kind of reply? I haven’t seen one like this. Let me know thanks for the insight!

 

[Gear Fanatic]

Forget the NARA That’s what I was looking for!!!!

 

Americal division, wow! I will probably  still get his records, but knowing that and being connected To that unit is amazing. Thanks Aznation. Appreciate your help.

[aznation]

1 minute ago, Gear Fanatic said:

Forget the NARA That’s what I was looking for!!!!

 

Americal division, wow! I will probably  still get his records, but knowing that and being connected To that unit is amazing. Thanks Aznation. Appreciate your help.

You're welcome.  Wasn't much but at least there was that division.  The Americal Division was very active in Vietnam during those years.

[Gear Fanatic]

Yah, seeing as he enlisted/was drafted in November of 67 it would make sense that he was tranced to them as Tagt was when they were formed in Vietnam. Thank you for that. Hopefully once I get his full records it will shine some light on what he did, his MOS, etc. thank you.

[P-59A]

1 hour ago, aznation said:

You're welcome.  Wasn't much but at least there was that division.  The Americal Division was very active in Vietnam during those years.

Who was that masked man?

[Gear Fanatic]

8 pages later, So what now? I’ve been on crusade to find this man’s unit, I’m sorta at a loss now? What do I do besides finding out minor info about him? Do you guys think this would be a good helmet to make a nice display stand and write up for? Or is it not that level? Suggestions welcome.

 

thanks to everyone who helped out, @P-59A, @Rakkasan187 @aznation and all the others that helped out, thanks for the guidance and knowledge, really appreciate it.

[ShibaLegend]

For your question of if it's a good display item, that's for you to decide for yourself, not others.

1 hour ago, Gear Fanatic said:

8 pages later, So what now? I’ve been on crusade to find this man’s unit, I’m sorta at a loss now? What do I do besides finding out minor info about him? Do you guys think this would be a good helmet to make a nice display stand and write up for? Or is it not that level? Suggestions welcome.

 

thanks to everyone who helped out, @P-59A, @Rakkasan187 @aznation and all the others that helped out, thanks for the guidance and knowledge, really appreciate it.

 

[P-59A]

1 hour ago, Gear Fanatic said:

8 pages later, So what now? I’ve been on crusade to find this man’s unit, I’m sorta at a loss now? What do I do besides finding out minor info about him? Do you guys think this would be a good helmet to make a nice display stand and write up for? Or is it not that level? Suggestions welcome.

 

thanks to everyone who helped out, @P-59A, @Rakkasan187 @aznation and all the others that helped out, thanks for the guidance and knowledge, really appreciate it.

This is a site that is all about the history of items. Having an item is nice but its the history of that item that truly matters. Keep digging then tell us its story.

[644td]

My motto

 

[Gear Fanatic]

Sounds good, I’ll keep digging till there’s nothing left to question. Either way thank you all for your help. Really appreciate it.