Always is like that. 🙄

Thank you for all the great and very interesting information Cobra 6 Actual  and Yokota57. I  will keep my eye on this lighter now knowing that it is not only genuine but also quite unique.    Thank you!

I like this lighter. What do you think?

thanks . Paul

The other one is Houston Independent School District HS Jr ROTC, Houston TX That's the San Jacinto monument on the DUI

Easy to find and cheap....when you dont want or need one. Harder to find and more than you want to pay when you do. 🤷‍♂️

Second one (upside down) is Tripler General Hospital (Oahu, Hawaii) aka Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC).  That's Diamond Head in the background and the red flower is a Bougainvillea between the palm trees.  I see this one all the time on uniforms here, including my neighbors.

As a Skivvy Waver, I loved unrepping. We’d spend most of it just passing the time of day with the unrepper. Had one CO, who had a standard “Greeting” for us to transmit to the Supply ship. “When were you last in Subic and what was the Peso exchange rate?”  During the transfer, we may send some actual traffic, requesting additional items to be transferred, like the CO or XOs favorite candy. At the end of the transfer, we’d get a “Furl Transfered” message. We’d have it all filled out, it was a standard format. Just needed numbers of product transferred, to finish the message. Great times!    One time, in the Med, we operated every UnRep with the same “Oiler”. They had an all female Signal Bridge. We chit chatted for months and eventually, ended up in Corfu Greece together. My buddies and I were walking past the beach. I heard “Hay Senior Chief”!  I looked. It was the Dignal Gang from the Oiler. It was a Topless Beach!  We kept it “Professional”

Here is an original photo I own of a member of the 11th airborne wearing a swing cap. I’m not sure what regiment this guy was in. i believe the photo came from members of the 187th or 188th? Some of the other photos the seller on eBay had was of paratroopers getting ready to jump with leather football helmets on and of military band. I thought this would be interesting to add.

Looks like a reshaped M3 blade.