So, I know some of you guys may never have seen what these look like, so I just found an ebay auction for some and thought you guys might find this interesting. (I have no connection to the seller) You just don't see these everyday - the early advisors would have worn these.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Early-Issue-Jungle-Boots-sz-10W-Vietnam-Era-Dated-7-62-Buckles-Special-Forces-/121518322782?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4b0e745e

Nice !  almost my size too

There is a very good chance that a genuine bad ass walked in those boots.

Nice. Those are Okinawa boots though, not 1st pattern jungle boots. Still correct for early advisers though.

I was bidding on those....and I was hoping they might go unnoticed. Oh well

From VietnamGear.com
Developed to replace the WWII jungle boots, the Tropical Combat Boots were first standardized in August 1945.1 They featured cleated rubber soles and uppers made from leather and cotton canvas. (Though in the original spec the quarters and tongue were made from spun nylon duck, cotton has been used in the boots pictured.) The boots also boasted two screened drainage eyelets sunken into the inside arch and had six lace eyelets and two leather straps with brass buckles, regardless of size.

The Tropical Combat Boots were issued in Vietnam during the advisory period of the early 1960's. However, the buckles had a tendency to snag on vegetation and the sole stitching deteriorated rapidly in the jungle environment.
1. B.Q.D. No. 268 - Boots, Combat Tropical (Quartermaster Corps 25th August 1945)

I have a named pair that have a WW2 type sole as seen on standard WW2 double buckle boots, not the super heavy lug sole as seen in this auction. I was convinced they had been re-soled. In the past year, I've seen 2 more sets just like mine and am now trying to find more info about these boots.
I knew they were also made in the early 60s (used by advisors and maybe SF)  but these are the 1st 60s dated set I've seen.
They DO look great when wearing vintage "duck hunter" camos and carrying a 601 or 602

Looks like tanker boots and a duffle bag had a baby

I thought the exact same thing!!!



 

Old GUY rambling on about a place far far away many many years ago.
I had not heard that for a while. "duck hunter" camo.

I still have the "duck hunter"  camo top I wore in Vietnam when doing some kicker work in a little country next door. ER! We were really not there. I also have the top of a camo  that was use for another kicker run. I forgot what they called the camo color.  I also had some tiger sets I brought back that I wore in country. None of the sets had any U.S. markings on them. The ladies that washed out clothes could not write our names but could do numbers, so inside each shirt or pants each of us had a number. I was # 7.
No, they don't fit but, they are not for sale.

I also brought back several pairs of jungle boots (new) and one set that was the last pair I worn in the field. They are still covered in red dirt.  Anyone remember the red dirt or the red mud? I gave the new boots away but kept the used pair.
I don't know where the pants went. They may be still in storage. I have several old boxes in storage of my gear that has been there for over 45+ years.
Some day I will get to the back of the storage bld. and dig them out to see what is in there.


Old man rambling out......
Ron

Glad you never got tangled up in the static lines Ron! How come the best stories are the ones that can never be told?

You sir, are owed a very large thanks.  Thank you for your service.........and if by chance you are ever up this way for the Knob Creek machine gun shoot, I'll buy you a cold one.

Thanks , but the guys we were getting the stuff to deserve the all the credit and thanks.
If we did our part right, they were able to do theirs.

Picture of one of my camo...I will look for the others later.


Ron

When my dad came back from Vietnam in 1967 he brought me a small set of tiger stripe camo fatigues and a small set of jump boots.  I was big for my age and I was wearing them in the 6th grade.  I remember the jump boots squeeking  when I walked.

Later, when he came back the second time in 1971 we had all manner of the OD green jungle fatigues and jungle boots we wore fishing.  All those pockets were great for medicine bottles of mepps spinners and tiny torpedoes, a water bottle and a couple sandwiches.  The jump boots just didn't work out in the river though.  The soles were too slick for rocky bottom wading and we went to tennis shoes.  I just figured the softer soles on the tennis shoes got a better grip on the rocks.

That's a great story man. We're clearly around the same age. Funny the things I miss from back then...like the party line phone with the long cord hanging near the door to the basement...

Yer gonna hafta splain Party Lines to the younglings Morg!

It don't mean what they think it means!

Don't forget the rotary dial!  SCHICK zzzzzzzz SCHICK zzzzz SCHICK zzzzzzzzzzzzz SCHICK zzzzzzzz  SCHICK zzzzzzzz SCHICK zzzzzzzz SCHICK zzzzzzzz  


And Sir delete,

EVERYONE gets thanks and admiration for doing their duty regardless of what those duties were.

Since you needed cammies I doubt very seriously you were running milk runs.

Ahh yes the old party line, bad days to have a girlfriend that liked to gab on the phone with all the neighbors listening in.

I remember when ma bell went from rotary to push button and the phone company guys brought new phones to the house. Had to rewire the jack from the old 4 prong plug to the modern type. It took that poor guy at least an hour to explain how a push button phone works to my mom. The phones were in all the "Exciting New Colors for 1975", We had an avocado green wall phone and for my dad's business line it was lemon yellow desk phone.

Good news and bad news.

Bad news, those ain't duck hunters.

Good news, those are some rare cammies worn by the South Vietnamese National Police Field Force, called "cloud camouflage" by collectors, and worth some buck$. It's the same camo on the autumn side of the Mitchell camo helmet covers.




These are "duck hunter"



Welcome home and thank you.

Thanks for the pictures.
YEA! I know I will look for the "duck Hunter" .
The one I have look different from the one your showing.
Maybe mine are not "duck hunter", my old memory get fuzzy some times.
(I think they were a light tan with brown spots or something like that.)

I forgot that we were also issued a leaf pattern camo. Seems like it was a greenish color.

a couple of different solid green slant pocket material, one was cotton and one was rip stop ( Nylon?).
Man that was over 45 years ago...........

Ron

There are lots of variations in "duck hunter" camo patterns from different commercial suppliers of hunting clothes all somewhat based on the Marine Corps camo from WWII. Several foreign countries also adopted similar patterns, Republic of Korea for instance. There is also an Asian produced pattern called beo gam used by SF and CIDG, the collectors go ga-ga over $$.


Beo gam pattern


LRRP wearing ROK camo

This kind of looks like it (from my memory) Beo gam pattern.
I guess I need to just try to find it. It may be still in storage.

Thanks,
Ron

Holy Crap - I think I know that guy on the left.  Used to work with a man who retired as a Colonel in the Special Forces and was in South Vietnam as an adviser.  I've seen pics of him and VN soldiers with M1 carbines slung over their shoulders.

My original Beo Gam duck hunter