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03-27-08, 12:50 PM #31Originally Posted by silverdollar
Heck, post everything. I don't mind LOL.
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03-27-08, 12:52 PM #32
Oh, and Gunny, I still have my horseblanket, but it was issued in 1982. The Corps went to the "combination" rain/overcoat in 1986. They started getting issued in 1984 or 85, I think. Wear out date for the Horseblanket and 'green raincoat' was mid 1986 if I recall correctly. (Because I had to get one for my Jan 87 WestPac, and get rid of my 'blanket).
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03-27-08, 01:39 PM #33
I love that you started this thread. It makes me want to start a new collection insted of just stamps.
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03-27-08, 01:55 PM #34
Fair warning....it's an EXPENSIVE hobby. But one heck of a lot of fun.
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03-27-08, 02:42 PM #35
Sgt Lep,
I too wore the horseblanket until the day before it was no longer authorized. It was a great piece of gear, especially since I was stationed in Cleveland. We used to call that hideous-gray coat "The London Fog" coat.
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03-27-08, 02:54 PM #36
Yep. I was ORDERED to purchase one, had to have one for the J.O.B. prior to going on deployment. What a shapeless, non military looking POS that thing is/was.
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03-27-08, 03:17 PM #37
I checked into the fleet in 85 with a spy coat and a wooley pulley. Shortly after my arrival the old salts were ordered to purchase both. There were a whole lot of unhappy campers. I kind of envied those that had the horse blanket coat. As we learned the hard way you can not hang a wooley pulley in your locker. The darn thing became 6 foot long and so everyone had to go buy another and display it neatly folded instead of on a hanger.
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03-27-08, 03:50 PM #38
My roommate made the same mistake with his green furry monster. Now we have to buy him another one, as the wooly pully he had before is a tent.
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03-27-08, 06:09 PM #39
The Woolly Pully I liked personally. But that damn London-Fog thing really was a piece of junk.
Just before I retired they came out with the blue Woolly Pully for use with modified blues. That thing I refused to buy or wear. The blue was too light--just light enough to look like crap with the blue trousers. To top it all off, I seem to recall that you had to wear your insignia of rank on eppalettes. It reminded me too much of the Army.
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03-27-08, 09:09 PM #40
Wolly Pully was after my time.
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03-27-08, 10:07 PM #41
I was reading about the chevrons stencil kits etc and I went into my archives where I have the kit issued to me in boot camp July 1965. I also have all my uniforms the greens,tropicals,and khakis. The greens had brown buttons which we had to dye black as well as the barracks cover brim and our shoes. I was also issued a set of black metal pfc chevrons which were worn on the utilities collar. I have all of them pfc,lcpl,cpl,sgt,ssgt on card I was given in boot camp for my first "job". I also have a set of blues circa 1964 (and they do look different from the blues of today) including the white gloves with the little metal snap at the wrist. I will admit that the white gear has tended to become a bit yellowish in the 40+ years I have had it.
I have a question I need an answer for, How many years do the stripes on the sleeves represent?, I think it is three per stripe????
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03-27-08, 10:13 PM #42
Forgot in my last post, I have the original raincoat but over the years the coating has become disentigrated and is flaking off. The overcoat (the horse blanket) is in great shape and I wear it occasionally with the original black leather gloves issued to me in boot camp (found these in the pockets of the coat after many years in a closet). Oh yes the buttons on the strap across the back of the overcoat are the original brown seems I forgot to dye them black in boot camp how did the DI miss this LOL.
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03-27-08, 10:38 PM #43Originally Posted by iamcloudlander
Four years/stripe
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03-27-08, 11:12 PM #44
I've got a box that has every single letter ever sent to me in boot camp, and every single letter I sent home in boot (besides the ones sent to an unfaithful fiancee) so I have that collection to one day open up my old footlocker and reminisce about.
I've actually been thinking about getting several large steamer trunks and putting all the familys military things in there, a steamer trunk for all of my marine stuff, all of my dads army stuff from his career in the army, my grandfathers navy stuff, the list goes on back to the civil war.
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03-27-08, 11:46 PM #45
The clutchpost EGA pictured in the post dated 3-18 was used from about 1949/50 to 1955 when the anchor on the collar sized EGA's got the rope fouling it.
The wide metal chevrons were used from about 1955 to 1959. The enlisted rank structure was reorganized and approved in October 1958 and that's when the chevrons got the crossed rifles and the new pay grade of E-9. The corresponding metal chevrons were reduced in width at that time.
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