What about stolen valor act?

Thanks. The front is quite misleading and at first glance, well made. As far as I can see, it is deceptive. The back is indeed different from the English-made one that I initially used as comparison material. But I think you know a lot about this to label it as a non-original copy.

From what I've researched and been able to tell, this item is what you stated, an unopened M1 Carbine spare parts kit. It appears to contain caps, a brush, grease, and possibly magazines (unsure but its listed above "cap" like M1Garandy claims). My best guess is it also doubles as a cleaning kit for the Carbine and magazines. I believe this would've been issued to the soldier when he was issued their M1 Carbine.    Hope this helped, Hayden

This Bronze Star popped up on ebay.   Named with a Vietnamese name … Van Ngoc Nguyen.   The way the naming convention with Vietnamese names works I’m assuming his name on the medal is a bit backwards.   They put his last name where an American last name would be (go figure) but as he would write it it should be Nguyen Van Ngoc.      It comes with an article from the Honolulu Times from 1967 about a Captain Nguyen Van Ngoc of Vietnam Marine Corps.  He was stationed in Hawaii at the Marine Corps Air Station working with the Vietnamese Language School.    This is from newspapers.com though and clearly is someone plopping the name in a search engine.   Nguyen is an extremely common last name in Vietnam so I wasn’t convinced it was him.   I did a bit more digging.     Nothing but another version of this article came up with a google search of “Captain Nguyen Van Ngoc”.     I decided to put his name into findagrave.com   First I put in his last name as Nguyen, his first name as Van and his middle name as Ngoc (which is the correct order).  Nothing particularly relevant came up.   Then I put his first name as Nguyen, his Middle name as Van and his last name as Ngoc (the way you would write it).   A hit came up for a man born in 1904 and buried in a Catholic cemetery in 1980 in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.   The picture of the grave has an American Legion disk next to it.  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242617028/nguyen-van-ngoc     I then went back to the ebay listing.  The medal was shipped by “Multi County Pickers” from Southampton, Pennsylvania.   That is 9.2 miles from the Cheltenham where he is buried!      Then I started doing the math.   At first 1904 seemed an early date of birth.  He would have been 60 in 1964.   But then I went back to the article.  It says Nguyen was a trained lawyer at a French college and was a 15 year veteran with combat experience.  It then says he was planning on retiring the next year and moving to the US to teach Vietnamese. That would make him 64 in 1968.  That seems like a perfectly logical timeline.      Next I found a Philadelphia Inquirer article about a mobile Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial coming to Bucks County, PA.   The article includes a picture of a Vietnam veteran holding a young Vietnamese girl.  The caption reads: “Army Capt, Rick Kiernan, a combat infantry advisor who trained and led South Vietnamese soldiers in Duc Hoa in 1970, lived in the village and befriended its children, including Mia Van Ngoc, whose dad Nguyen Van Ngoc was a South Vietnamese Army Captain, trained by Kiernan.”   This is all circumstantial of course.  But it appears to me that this Bronze Star must have been issued after 1967 to Captain Nguyen Van Ngoc of the Vietnam Marine Corps who after serving in combat went to work at the Vietnam Language School in Hawaii.  Retiring in 1968 he moved to Pennsylvania, dying in 1980.  I’d love to know more.  Any info would be appreciated.  

That's an amazing uniform, if you ever decided to let it go, keep me in mind. 

Thank you. I was a bit concerned by the lettering not being a uniform size, other than the first letters which are capitalized of course. What exactly indicates to you that this is a period piece? Just trying to learn what to look for.

Understand,  thank you for your service as well. God Bless,  Ken 

I don't have an answer, but I believe this "1005-621-???? Carbine       6 EA" actually states "1005-621-???? MAGAZINE       6 EA".    You ask this question over on the CMP forum? 

They're out there. Just bird dogging.  

Definitely military. The rectangle with an X is the tactical symbol for infantry