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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:12:41 PM EDT
[#1]
It was 'Nam man.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:12:54 PM EDT
[#2]
Dye job. You know, like getting orange P-mags.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:13:29 PM EDT
[#3]
Bought them in Thailand.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:14:52 PM EDT
[#4]
From the same place they got the golf ball grenades and booby trapped chicom ammunition. Supply.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:15:22 PM EDT
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It’s Wikipedia but.....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerstripe When the United States began sending advisors to South Vietnam, USMAAG advisors attached to the ARVN were authorized to wear their Vietnamese unit's combat uniform with US insignia. Soon, many American special operations forces in the Vietnamese theater of operations wore the pattern, despite not always being attached to ARVN units: it became the visible trademark of Green Berets, LRRPs, SEALs, and other elite forces. Tigerstripe was never an official US-issue item. Personnel permitted to wear it at first had their camo fatigues custom-made by local tailors, ARVN uniforms being too small for most Americans; |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:16:13 PM EDT
[#6]
They were likely acquired by acquisition.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:18:08 PM EDT
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deleted.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:26:48 PM EDT
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I think they got them from local tailors
They are very cool looking. 
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:33:33 PM EDT
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Civilian shops there was a kind of mini mall on Dong Tam
Until the rockets took out half Shit faded though and that made it worse....simple OD was best even when it faded it still worked. Except in the areas that had no foliage 
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:44:12 PM EDT
[#10]
Tiger stripes make you feel like preditor
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:45:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:49:16 PM EDT
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Same way I magically grew pockets on my DCU sleeves.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 7:59:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/1/2018 8:03:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
That’s classified. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/221388/50604CF9-2F32-4184-9278-2FFE5B55BAFE-626552.JPG |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 8:05:56 PM EDT
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I don't know but my uncle wore them, he was with 5th special forces group. I had a set of his years ago but they have been lost over time.
I had always thought he did 2 tours but I recently found out he did 3.5 tours in that shithole. He retired in '86 but Agent Orange cancer got him in '89. Retired CSM with 26 years Army, 2 years Navy. |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 8:07:25 PM EDT
[#16]
@TX-Zen
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Posted: 8/1/2018 8:08:12 PM EDT
[#17]
Same place the rest of us did; the flea market.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 10:51:45 PM EDT
[#18]
Dunno, but damn were they ever cool....
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Posted: 8/1/2018 10:54:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/1/2018 10:54:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Dunno, but damn were they ever cool.... 
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Posted: 8/1/2018 10:56:33 PM EDT
[#21]
Coolest looking pattern ever. I had them when I was a little kid. Not all that effective on the plains of sd though, haha.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:03:36 PM EDT
[#22]
pretty much my favorite pattern ever.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:06:12 PM EDT
[#23]
I have a set of my Dad’s. He was a skinny bastard at 19.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:09:41 PM EDT
[#24]
Amazon
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:10:41 PM EDT
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Watching Ken Burns Vietnam series and some USA soldiers are wearing tiger stripes camo uniforms in pictures, they were never issued how did the soldiers get them and wear them (other than buy them in country), would they be considered out of uniform with them on? were their rules on who could wear them? very interested |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:12:21 PM EDT
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Its just like the bases we have today. Plenty of local tailors ready to make you anything you need. I read about them being made by the locals in one of the many SF books.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:12:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
It was 'Nam man.  Smokey, this isn't Nam. |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:14:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I never really wanted to stand out...before there was the Grey Man there was the OD man... |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:15:31 PM EDT
[#29]
Local tailors & seamstresses in Vietnam could whip up anything you wanted most rikki tik, and for cheap too.
Same is true today, and also in Korea, the P.I., and a lot of other places in Asia. "Hey GI? You want tiger stripe? I make you numbah one tiger stripe! Two dollah!" And plus you could fuck his sister for "five dollah." (Or his mom if all you had was "three dollah"). |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:15:33 PM EDT
[#30]
It is the coolest looking camo.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:17:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:24:12 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote History
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:27:48 PM EDT
[#33]
Good GPC team in the unit.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:27:53 PM EDT
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Quote History |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:33:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat specific pattern (now called “John Wayne”) was a foreign contract run for SOG, I believe. They had them made in western sizes and are stamped inside.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:37:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That pattern was a foreign contract run for SOG, I believe. |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:40:45 PM EDT
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Some of my collection...
only one questionable set in the bunch 
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:41:43 PM EDT
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Dye job. You know, like getting orange P-mags. 
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:42:45 PM EDT
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My best friend's dad was a Marine Recon or LRRP one, can't remember right this second. He found some pics of him in the tiger stripes last week when he and his brother were cleaning out their dad's home. He had him at home caring for him until a month ago and had to put him in a nursing home. His mom died two years ago and his dad just went downhill from there really fast, and his dementia has totally taken him over. He was shot in the back of both legs twice each trying to get to the helicopters to exfil.
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:43:39 PM EDT
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One thing I should know but i can't remember for sure is the French originally designed it in the 50s Gold is actually pretty fuckin sweet. Occasionally Asian repop manufacturers will do material pattern runs for re-pop uniforms and some of the fabric ends up in fashion lines in Asia. I’ve seen some of it make it to places like JC Penney cargo shorts.. 
Somewhere I have a really rare theater made 6 panel “ball cap” in John Wayne, likely made from a cut up jungle top. |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:45:57 PM EDT
[#41]
Laundry chicks.
Just like Iraq |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:48:51 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Local tailors & seamstresses in Vietnam could whip up anything you wanted most rikki tik, and for cheap too. Same is true today, and also in Korea, the P.I., and a lot of other places in Asia. "Hey GI? You want tiger stripe? I make you numbah one tiger stripe! Two dollah!" And plus you could fuck his sister for "five dollah." (Or his mom if all you had was "three dollah"). |
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Posted: 8/1/2018 11:50:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
"Number one cherry girl, never before, my mother!" Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Local tailors & seamstresses in Vietnam could whip up anything you wanted most rikki tik, and for cheap too. Same is true today, and also in Korea, the P.I., and a lot of other places in Asia. "Hey GI? You want tiger stripe? I make you numbah one tiger stripe! Two dollah!" And plus you could fuck his sister for "five dollah." (Or his mom if all you had was "three dollah").
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Posted: 8/2/2018 8:25:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQQuoted:
@TX-Zen |
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Posted: 8/2/2018 10:25:44 AM EDT
[#45]
The problem with "Tiger Stripes" was that they screwed the pattern up as it was supposed to be vertical stripes not horizontal.
When it faded the dark splotches kinda of melded together making it easier to spot and no longer "camo". When the OD faded it was more effective... |
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Posted: 8/2/2018 10:36:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
The problem with "Tiger Stripes" was that they screwed the pattern up as it was supposed to be vertical stripes not horizontal. When it faded the dark splotches kinda of melded together making it easier to spot and no longer "camo". When the OD faded it was more effective... |
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Posted: 8/2/2018 10:44:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Today's Army uniform is like that.The multicam has vertical branches but the Army's scorpion does not |
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Posted: 8/2/2018 10:46:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
It's Wikipedia but..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerstripe When the United States began sending advisors to South Vietnam, USMAAG advisors attached to the ARVN were authorized to wear their Vietnamese unit's combat uniform with US insignia. Soon, many American special operations forces in the Vietnamese theater of operations wore the pattern, despite not always being attached to ARVN units: it became the visible trademark of Green Berets, LRRPs, SEALs, and other elite forces. Tigerstripe was never an official US-issue item. Personnel permitted to wear it at first had their camo fatigues custom-made by local tailors, ARVN uniforms being too small for most Americans; 
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Posted: 8/2/2018 10:54:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I think they got them from local tailors They are very cool looking. http://i40.servimg.com/u/f40/17/20/48/43/americ10.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Jungle_Combat_Vietnam.jpg/1200px-Jungle_Combat_Vietnam.jpg https://i.imgur.com/JQsIwn5.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/a1/c7/69a1c75c773fad8963f70320d5b0eca3--military-life-military-history.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/63/64/b0/6364b0c38ff009ff1c7aae2ada4b8741--marine-recon-vietnam-history.jpg |
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Posted: 8/2/2018 5:31:02 PM EDT
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Just asked my girl's dad... 1st ID vet 68-69. He said "mama san" could make you anything on the cheap... and command usually didnt give a fuck what you wore. Hell, they'd wear cutoff fatigue shorts and tees as often as possible .
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