Thank you so much for the information. This is very helpful.  I have the RA #19470805 but could successfully search by that number. Are you able to search service numbers? Thanks again. Joe

These OPFOR uniforms appear to have a character; name, rank and group portrayed written in sharpie on the inner aspect of the coats.  The shoulder boards like the other insignia is 'hook and pile' and very IRAQI in nature.  They may have come from a SOF training area at Ft Bragg, but I have no definitive provenance.  One of the DCU's was previously Air Force and another Army based on stitch marks.  I am not a collector of OPFOR even though I have had a number of the uniforms and insignia over the years.  Anyone with more info on the history of these, I would be most pleased to hear it.  Cheers, Armygas

Oh, yeah thanks

General,   As always, another brilliant post!  It's 1800 hrs here in Detroit and I just learned something I hadn't seen before so I guess I can go to bed now (my Mom used to say "that you can't go to bed until you learn something new every day").   Now, as for the "Chicken & the egg"...   OD

Man I love that knife. Someone had above average skills.

Fantastic

. Peeps and Jeeps.   Over the lifetime of this thread I have posted about the use of Peeps and Jeeps several times,  I have tried to search for the posts I made,  but failed to do so.   One was for a wartime magazine and there was an article in the magazine stating that the word Peeps was used for what we now call Jeeps and Jeeps were half-ton Dodges.    Another post I added was a 1940 / 1941 period film about serving in the US Army and the film related to the initial training period and they had a studio mock-up of a  vehicle representing a ' Jeep ' but it was verbally called a Peep, again I can't find this post,  some of the searches need to be word specific otherwise it draws a blank.    So here's another use of the word ' Jeep ' as used by Minneapolis Moline for vehicles they built for the army, so it's still ambiguous where the term originated from to become synonymous with the Second World War Jeep as we call it today.        Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 09 June  2O26.   ..

Halo and FOB are post war tea stained.  These were common fakes and sold during the 80s and latter.  

Very nice, thanks for sharing! Ken 

Beautiful carbine! Being late or post war, is it marked M1 (hopefully) or M2?