Hahaha thanks Allan

Do you perhaps mean the city "Castrop-Rauxel" in Germany ?

Used to be 40 bucks less in 5 years ago. Miss the good ol days in the Dan Sinh Market 

I got this 1984 grenadier Vest for 40 bucks a week ago. And i just modified it a bit for carrying ALICE/ABA Pouches. Like the old Delta Force/Seals in the early 80s

I know this thread is getting "long in the tooth," so to speak, but I found it as I was researching the subject of US Army WWII tentage. From what I've learned, I believe that the brass tubular tent slips were used until superseded by the coiled wire types starting around 1936.  Since the brass tubular slips were no doubt quite durable, it's likely they remained in use with the tentage they were issued with.  New production tentage starting ca. 1936/37 would have been issued with the new coiled wire slips (which seem to be the most prevalent in war-time period photos.  I could easily see the use of the brass tubular types all through the pre-war large maneuvers as the US Army was built up in size. Note the drawing date (not the drawing number) of this QM drawing, October 19, 1936.  So, these coiled wire types of slips likely started showing up in 1937 with new issued tentage. BTW, if anyone has some of these coiled wire type tent slips that they might sell, do please let me know.  I'm searching for about 2 dozen of them.  

I did some research turns out its hard to find a gen 2 iotv with all parts/soft armor that have matching year, lot, and serial number. But its not impossible, however its vary rare to find gen 2 attachments with all matching year, lot, and serial numbers. This is only regarding multicam gen 2s not ucp. I didn't know this was possible but apparently you can find an iotv with all parts and attachments matching. Its extremely rare, and almost unheard of, you have a better chance to find with ucp but not multicam. This iotv is in the FS section, with matching parts im guessing it be worth around $700. 

I’m suffering the “out of LIKEs” curse again. So 👍👍👍👍👍… for the various posts here lately.  mikie

As I may have mentioned before, for a number of reasons, I’m in the process of trying to wind down my collecting habit. “Look but don’t buy” is my moto the past couple of years. See something cool. Take a picture and move on. That said, it hasn’t taken much to make me stray from the course.  mikie

I love the guy with the B.A.R. belt! A great addition on Bravo 6's part.   Great work! Love the smoke signal.    Wade

"Someone" needs to review their tank silhouettes or get new eyeglasses. Or, alternately, it is an M4, so in German it could be called a Panzer IV. Did I get the joke?