I won this on a online auction this past weekend. 

 

Green helmets are for maintanence,, also catapult & arresting gear.

Helmet is dated July 1987. Goggles are 1974, still using the same molds?

Only real issue is that foam around goggles & inside hearing protection is or has failed & falling apart. 

What would PA5-120-10 refer to? And good luck finding the user J.B. 

 

Thanks for looking 

Paul 

 

Very nice helmet. The code numbers represent a Pacific Fleet squadron (PA5) and 120 is the Airframe shop of this squadron. The “10” represents the 10th helmet in the Airframe shop assigned to some AirFramer named “ JB “.

 

Most likely an F/A-18 squadron. 
 

Chris

 

 

1 hour ago, hink441 said:

Very nice helmet. The code numbers represent a Pacific Fleet squadron (PA5) and 120 is the Airframe shop of this squadron. The “10” represents the 10th helmet in the Airframe shop assigned to some AirFramer named “ JB “.

 

Most likely an F/A-18 squadron. 
 

Chris

 

 

Chris,

Thanks for the info.

That is a cool one and I think the initials are "JWB".  Looks like a "W" snuck in the middle to me.

 

Best,

Rob

2 hours ago, joefriday22 said:

That is a cool one and I think the initials are "JWB".  Looks like a "W" snuck in the middle to me.

 

Best,

Rob

 

I did see that but it just didn't register with me. Thanks

 

I’m trying to remember what 4-M was. Was that a Maintenance QA checker?  It’s been almost 50 years since I worked on a flight deck, those days are sort of “Hazy “ shall we say. Somewhere, I have the box that the last set of goggles I got for my flight deck helmet. I used it for storage of stuff in my locker and as a hard surface to stencile my clothes on   Has my name all over it, layer after layer of stencil ink. If I only knew back then. As a side note, it was also common to have two sets of goggles on your helmet. One with clear lenses and one with tinted. 

I seem to be on a roll as far picking up USN helmets, this one & a WW2 talker setup posted in groups.

Thanks for all of the comments & observations.