That is a beautiful rifle!     OD

It is remarkable that you dont have more comments on it. And views.....Not something you see.. ever! How many people have a film of the helmets owner wearing it during a war? I would guess very very few examples.... Its a great one Marty!!!

One more thing about the sleeves that I would like to add, is that it was never ones  personal choice to roll them up. Everyone rolled em up or no one did. That was a call from higher. You would never have some guys with em up and some with em down. Uniformity. And the cuff roll over was an Army thing for appearance. And from what the other guys said it was an Airforce thing too. Not the USMC though. No idea about the Navy back then? I think they had short sleeve utilities though.. Out in the field.. you wore em down. And top button buttoned..Cravat around the neck. Protect the skin from weather thorns the sun critters etc... hot or not... Besides that in the cammo BDU you had to cover the neck.... in the field because a white neck stands out same with the face. Thats what the cammo for the face was for. And gloves for the hands Un cammoed skin was a becon..... Un cammoed arms would stand out like a sore thumb. I always envied and respected the Helo Pilots and crews.. And when not flying.. they lived like human beings.

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Nice, the accelerator pedal linkage is one of the parts I talked about yesterday about needing studs to mount them to the block (the studs needed for the coil are the same), but this size is easily available from parts dealers.   When we restored the jeep the first time in the mid-1990's those big stashes were already mostly dried up, although dealers still did have a decent supply of original parts. Other parts were relatively easy to find at shows, but even once common and plentiful parts dry up sooner or later...   The last big vehicle stash I remember were those Greek jeeps, and most of those were in a very sorry state although usually relatively complete.        

The sleeves couldn't be permanently shortened because you never knew what region you might be deployed to, or in what season...remember, we wore BDUs regardless of the season/climate. You might need to pull the sleeves down for warmth, to protect your skin from the sun, or from critters that might give you some exotic tropical disease.   Mark sends

Hi Karl, Will send you a DM, thank you   AG

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Take note of post#7…when I listed “FSN”…not “NSN”   As far as the conversion from FSN to NSN, I enlisted in the USAF in June 1972 and I was an Inventory Mgt Specialist until Feb-Mar 1976.  I recall in 1974 while I was at Bitburg AB, Germany, I had the “honor” of updating catalog data by adding “00” in the FSN thus converting them to NSN…so I believe we converted earlier (1974).  In addition to my military, I worked in logistics/supply for DOD Civil Service (US Navy, US Army, and DOD Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)) retiring after 51 years service……so I “kinda know FSN/NSN. :-)