Hello today i have visited with my family as each year one of the Kia plot i’m in charge of at St James Cemetery France. He is named Lester Scheaffer. The other soldier is in Colleville Cemetery. i also join the pic of a famous MOH RIP hero

Thank you! The auction listing noted Agate as well

Not original VN era.

Hi all, Can someone of you tell me please if this F.Co scroll is a time period original or likely more a post vietnam war patch. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

wish you the best! -BC

I still have mine in my seabag, first issue heavy wool, never wore it.  

All good, brother.  Our humanity is what makes us interesting.     Be well.

Sorry for your lost collectible.   I can relate.   I've been relatively satisfied with USPS service after 50 years of sending and receiving things, with the caveat that I go with UPS when sending or receiving irreplaceable, easily breakable things  after a few hard and disappointing knocks, literally.   Until last year when a small five pound package containing hard to find clock weights mailed from a suburban Memphis USPS postal counter in a larger building,  never made it to the scanner at the gargantuan USPS Memphis hub.  I've since talked with others and Memphis is the Bermuda Triangle for lost packages.  A fellow clock collector and dealer told me of a Navy Chelsea he bought from the Memphis area around the same time that similarly disappeared without a trace.   My policy is no more purchases from Tennessee  unless the shipper will use FedEx or UPS, and not give the Black Hole of Memphis (apologies to Calcutta) another chance to dump, steal, etc, another package from me.     That said,  good luck with any insurance claim, probably a lost cause in the bureaucratic jungle.    Most people are not aware of this, but as a  frustration reliever, you could file a complaint with the US Postal Inspector Service, their IAD among other things.     https://www.uspis.gov/

Whether or not the soldiers depicted in the photograph are US Army or USMC will need to be determined by someone more qualified than I to determine.  There are experts here on the forum that should be able to answer that.  Of course the photo is definitely not Wake Island as mentioned above.  The location is a puzzlement for sure.  I'm curious to know why you're so interested in finding out about this particular photograph.  You don't have to let us know but it's just something I've wondered about.  Fact is, we may never know exactly where this location is but we'll see.  Good luck!   

I had already reacted on this topic in a supportive way towards the guy who had his helmet stolen. I just reacted again because i can't stand that people react so rudely to things like this. And btw my bad about saying he shoukd have clicked off. He should have just been a bit kinder and not so rude. Have a great weekend tho! -BC  Edit: his reaction got taken down or he deleted it so i guess my reaction was valid for some parts, excluding saying "that is worth a lot of money" and "you cpuld have clicked off the post" that was my bad, I was just irritated.