Well that didn’t go well. You folks with machining know-how will probably find this funny, because I must be doing something wrong. I tried drilling out the firing pin hole but my drill bits can’t bite into the weld.  I wonder if dynamite may work?  Is this picture “before” or “after”? It doesn’t matter, it looks the same either way.  mikie

Excellent and thank you much.  I have 4 of them just alike and they were loose packed with WRA69, RA70 ammo.  Good ammo and good cans too….:)  

Dave, that's a great group.   I use to own this group with a 6th class to General Stilwell's doctor.   It was missing a WWI DSC.   The Cloud and Banner is numbered 871.

Keep hunting the best is yet to come 

Those are very nice. I just bought another display form and can only hope to find examples like these to display.

Nice - the camo on the helmet really makes it "talk".     The HU-26 is what I wore at flight school in the early 1980s.  

Command Sgt. Maj. Jerald J. Stephens, the acting Fort Irwin Garrison Command Sgt. Major, leads the ceremonial color guard during the unit change of command ceremony, June 10, 2025. (Photo Credit: James Williams III) Note: Color Guard wearing IMCOM SSI on ascots. The CSM & CG wear NTC Support SSI on left sleeve. 

Looks like a legit honest PASGT, just looks completely unused, a nice pickup for sure 👍

Here are front and back pics from one of the 300th SFOD crests from one of the original officers.

Students with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, load up in a C-130 during jump week May 20, 2025, at the Basic Airborne Course on Fort Benning, Georgia. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Stephanie Snyder) Note: student wearing the SSI of the 193rd Infantry Brigade SSI on the left side of photo. (BCT unit stationed at Fort Jackson, SC.).