Hey folks, Today at the local swap meet I picked up a perhaps unissued 2nd pattern jungle jacket from some guy who sells used clothes.  Has the shoulder straps, waist adjuster, etc.  Has all three white tags.  Has never had any patches on it, including name tag or US Army tag.  Nothing.  So, my question is, during which years were these jackets issued?  I don't know since this is not my collecting area.    Thanks, Steve 

Not being a member of any organized religious group, I will say it’s best to defer to the folks here who are on this one.  It’s good of you to ask opinions about this beforehand, though.  mikie

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Makes sense in the 80s Vietnam collecting really wasn't a thing as it is today. Now I'm sure there was probably at least a few people collecting Vietnam stuff at that time, but definitely not as big as it is today. I didn't end up buying it, maybe I should have but I decided to pass it up. 

I would buy that for $20 in a heartbeat; however, I think it was used more recently than the Vietnam War.  The name and US Army tape are a type commonly used in the 80s, and the shirt seems to have the ghost of a Special Forces tab, which wasn't authorized until 1983.  Vietnam-era jungle fatigues were authorized for hot weather wear in the 1980s and I saw soldiers wearing second or even first pattern fatigues because they had no real collector value at the time.  A lot of them were organizational property, which meant they often had fade patterns from a variety of patches.

That would be a good secondary option. Thanks Jerry.

Thank you! That was my thought as well, though the online source I found says WWII.

I just took a closer look at this and I was mistaken.   This appears to be an Anniversary Meal for Lafayette College in Easton, PA    

I can vouch for Poppies reproduction packaging, very high quality. She's put out some very nice pieces over the past few years, I use her stuff for living history and a few place holders in my collection until I find a nice original example of something.

I would be put off by it as well.  At the reenactments here, there actually is a clergy member that portrays a chaplain and also says actual mass on Sundays. To me it is also about being younger, as most chaplains were older, dare I say wiser guys, of higher rank -not that some weren't fresh out of seminary school, but that's 22 on the young side. You could certainly a do a "chaplain assistant" (one of the guys I worked with was one with the 9th AAF in WWII) and that way you could still play the organ! You do think out of the box though!