From the same seller. A Nice color plate illustration of the slate gray uniforms.     

Saw this on FB Mkt out of Boise, ID.  $50 (or best offer) plus shipping! Includes the jacket and visor cap cover. These "slate gray" working uniforms appeared in 1943, and were intended to both better blend in with the color of the wearer's ship and to help hide dirt and grime. They were ultimately not particularly popular, owing to their likeness to a bus driver's uniform, and were phased out in 1949. Unfortunately this set is unnamed. The jacket is in good condition. There is a small wear hole under the right armpit, and the shoulder boards are a bit dirty. Interestingly, it has gold buttons instead of the "normal" black plastic type - from what I understand, gold buttons were permitted until March 1944 due to a shortage of the black ones. The jacket has approximately a 38" chest and a 24" sleeve, and the visor cap cover is for a size 7 1/4 cap.        

Hi Andersen44,   Come on, get a matching tab (Type 1 Mark Bando's classification).   Dominique

I picked up one at a gun show for 5-10 bucks several years ago.  The dealer had an open case full of common medals you could sift through.  Still one of my best “cheap finds”

Me and my cousin are having a little dispute about rifles used by snipers in Vietnam. He seems to believe that "the M14 with a scope on it" was the main rifle and the one that the majority of US Army and USMC snipers used, while I believe they did not use the M14 as much as they used bolt-action rifles such as the M40, the Winchester Model 70, and the occasional M1903 or other rifles like that.  Please settle this dispute! (and on my side please! 😁) Thank you all! Wade

Don't know if any of you guy's collect these but this is on Goodwill online under US Army. Just a heads up. Jim

Can any of you US Navy Vets, please tell me what RFP3 means? What area of the ship would this helmet be worn on? RFP3

Philippine style, Hong Kong engraved, Ship Fitter or Damage Control? Not sure what the underlying chevron signifies.     

A bit of dogging tonight. MAA , Gitmo, on FB Mkt out of Sacramento just abit high at $325.  

I posted my helmet at the top of this thread. At the time I posted it I everything indicated it was a ligit in country worn helmet. Proving it took a long time. I was lucky in that the information on the cover and on the helmet was intact and pointed in one direction.. A later forensic look at the cover showed bio evidence not seen by the naked eye. What was found were hand and finger smears and splatters. This was bio in nature but was not tested for blood, The helmet was stuck to the liner and against suggestions I was able to pull the two apart and and peel the cover a little bit from the lid. I found a name on green painted box tape on the lid. I understand different guys did different things in Vietnam . Their MOS would play into the ware and tear on  the helmets. I have talked about my buddy Gil in other threads. He was radio operator in the field with MACV 67-68. By the end of his tour he described his cover as trashed. Busting brush tore it up. This is a link to Gill's story. He was a reporter for the L.A. Times and published these story's in the paper. The photo's were taken about two weeks before Tet. Read that story.