Need Help With A U.S. Uniform~~

[NoncomRetired]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

Not to disagree, but these BDUs were summer weight, notice the straight on pockets, not jungle fatigues.

1981 we started to get winter weights a yr or so later these.

I wore these until I retired in 2000 (1980-2000, active army. Multiple locations)

Ed

No, the jacket is not considered a jungle fatigues. We had all green in Nam with slanted pockets, 1st model and 2nd model and the only camo we could get our hands on in the LRRPS and later, the Rangers, was the South Vietnamese Tiger fatigues. That showing was our first addition into the camoflage pattern uniform and it is considered summer weight as in "Ripstop" material. The later version you are talking about was of heavier material.

I retired in 85 and I was wearing the heavier weight BDUs as you were, same camo pattern.