Ok that was rude of me, but you’re not making this easy!   You imply that you’ve had to leave “Discord, then YouTube, now here”…and there’s only one common denominator between them that we can see.   You.   If you’re going onto those sites with the same attitude you came onto here with, then it’s no wonder you’ve been made to leave them. You are arrogant, closed-minded and your attitude is that of a spoiled brat who’s being told ‘No’ for the very first time.    You’re still salvageable, but that’s entirely up to you. You can either choose to carry on as you are, thinking that you know everything and taking every single piece of criticism as a personal attack, behaving like a spoiled child…OR you can accept that, in the grand scheme of things, you know nothing but make yourself willing to learn, to change and to adapt your way of thinking. If you do the latter then more people will be happy to interact with you, you’ll make more friends, you’ll learn more and you’ll actually be respected.   The choice, as always, is yours.   Choose wisely, or drink deeply of the well of nothingness for all eternity.

Well, I'm back on the forum after an involuntary absence of over a week due to a Cloudflare block. I have no idea how or why this happened, but happy to be back!   It will take some time to catch up, but this was the first topic I went to (obviously)! 😊     

Good evening Marty, Thanks for your advice; the back of the watch opens easily, and the cover has a hinge. The markings are visible now. Thanks for your help, Marty.

Bye, Felicia 👋

Probably. They look more like USN/USMC collar-size bars, actually. I think this is probably your guy. Field Artillery. https://archive.org/details/officialarmyregi19611unit/page/284/mode/2up

Ironic that Robert Conrad ended up a lot like Boyington, a raging alcoholic.  Boyington recovered, but Conrad never did, he killed a man drunk driving and died in relative obscurity.  He could and should have been Hollywood royalty but no one would hire him.  

Thank you! That's certainly very helpful.

Not that eBay is a great price guide but one sold on there recently  for $366.  I’ve had a couple and never gotten that much.  I was gonna say around $150. But I stand corrected.  

I am holding a -43- canvas 1911 mag holder marked BOYY or BOYD First and last letters too worn to tell for sure but I feel it is BOYY Patrick Murray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess_dress_uniform#U.S._Army Here is a site that helped me when I found my first US Army mess dress uniform at an estate sale.  It is a little confusing at first but through time..it makes sense.  Maybe (smile)