Found in the flea market from the same seller who sold me a small navy lot sometime back, not sure if real. Any help would be appreciated  

Looking for some help identifying what type of round this was.   The base of the case looks turned and without any markings.   The case mouth is 2.5 inches.  Projectile is about 9 inches long.    Thank you, Spearhead 

A desert tiger stripe uniform from a US Special Forces advisor to the Iraqi Special Commandos/SWAT.     The uniform is a standard Chinese made set (yellow tags), but was tailored in Iraq.  The jacket has been modified into a combat shirt by adding the jacket sleeves to a t-shirt base.   During the Global War on Terror (GWOT),  USSF advisors did wear the uniforms of the units they advised/trained.  That is the case with this uniform.   Uniform came from Ft Bragg.

But you're right about jungle fatigues, I heard from older collectors in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and even after Vietnam ended. That jungle fatigue were dirt cheap to the point where surplus stores refused to buy any. I don't know if this is true but an old guy working at a surplus store. Claimed after Vietnam ended you could go to your nearest dumpster and see piles of jungle fatigues, m1 helmets and m56 gear. I believe him on the jungle fatigues but not sure if I believe the rest of that statement.

The big problem is the miners didn't mark anything or save anything. Their uniforms were their every day work clothes, their weaponry mostly heirlooms or hunting pieces. These days the only way to find a Coal Wars piece would be by provenance alone.

I've read (I believe The Major's Tailor had a post about this) that the 2nd coat in this photo is a later '30s (37-39 ish) coat with an all alpaca/wool lining, including the collar, instead of shearling, and was intended to be warmer while also decreasing weight.

Important to note that the varieties on coats claiming to be China Marine or Iceland, etc, could well be just variations on the civilian market. These coats were widely popular and I've seen a fair number of them in civilian photos, so if they aren't stenciled or don't have provenance they might just be civilian pieces.

I don’t recall there being a significant difference between them during firing. And Yes, all the items in the ‘man cave’ are genuine. I don’t have repro stuff. I’m a bit of a snob with that.

Sorry, but branches really did not have preferences in any manner. The three types you'll see most commonly are the full leather dress boots without laces, the half-lace dress boots with lacing only at the ankle, and then the full lace type. Another variation was ankle boots with gaiters which seems to have been most popular with lower ranking officers like LTs. I have seen the lace up style advertised as aviator's boots, as seen in this 1933 catalog. As far as I can tell it was entirely personal preference. Photos of aviators in WW1 and the interwar period tend to have a mix of both dress and lace-up boots, as do pictures of Army officers in CCC camps. The lace up boots did get more popular in the 1930s, either preceding or alongside the release of the M1931 Cavalry boot.

I have never had the chance to fire a ZB26, I would imagine it’s pretty similar operation to the Bren? Great display, are all the maniquins original?