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re: History buffs: What is your favorite style of US military uniform?
Posted on 9/15/23 at 5:49 am to Wolfhound45
Posted on 9/15/23 at 5:49 am to Wolfhound45
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It was sold for 12 cents so it has to be late fifties to early sixties.
I think comics were a nickle or a dime so that would be right. remembering an old B&W tv show based (Hollywood loosely) on the Rats of Tobruk. May have used a light recon tank and the Honey probably would have fit that bill.
In the 70's, and the oil shocks, I remember wondering why older folks worried so about money. The past 2 years has me seeing it from the other side. 12 cent comic is possibly 5 to 10 bucks now. Easy on a kid making 15 bucks and hour but heart palpitating if you made 50 cents or 1.00 an hour in your peak years.
Hope you are having a good day and get to see some good games this weekend.
FWIW: As to OP, so many awesome styles but I would kick it REALLY old school
Without baws like this in the early days of what becomes the USA, would not have any of the other uniforms to choose from.
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Posted on 9/15/23 at 5:53 am to GasMan
Only 3 folks went through any of the Unites States Service Academies without a single demerit. If memory serves that fellow in the pic was one. In the next 10 years maybe, the 2nd one (West Point as well). The 3rd was POTUS Jimmy Carter (Naval Academy). Unsure if a 4th has happened in the past 10 - 20 years but guessing the answer is no.
That is a mighty short list!
That is a mighty short list!
Posted on 9/15/23 at 6:54 am to Cheese Grits
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Only 3 folks went through any of the Unites States Service Academies without a single demerit.
Eh,there were 6 people in Lee's class alone to not receive any demerits. He graduated 2nd in his class.
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Robert E. Lee graduates second in his class from West Point. While at the military academy, Lee is one of six students in his graduating class to never receive a demerit.
PBS- Life of Robert E. Lee
This post was edited on 9/15/23 at 6:55 am
Posted on 9/15/23 at 6:56 am to IAmNERD
Humm, always heard it was rare.
Wonder if there is a source for all the schools?
Wonder if there is a source for all the schools?
Posted on 9/15/23 at 7:44 am to Cheese Grits
Oh, it's still very rare when taken in context with class size. Could be a number of factors that go into something g like that. REL's class may have just been truly exceptional. I did read something that said that handing out demerits has been relaxed a lot since the late 1800s-early 1900s. So it's possible it has happened more recently.
Posted on 9/15/23 at 7:45 am to IAmNERD
Everything is more relaxed!
Getting old seems to have relaxed my waistline
Getting old seems to have relaxed my waistline
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:02 am to willymeaux
Nigeria
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:04 am to kiNupe5
is that Tyrese
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:57 am to kiNupe5
FAL, the right arm of the free world
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:16 pm to Shanegolang
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Blank adaptors. Those guys are training, apparently not a combat picture.
No kidding brainiac, that's why I pointed it out.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 7:26 am to greenbean
You called it a flash supressor, brainiac......... 
Posted on 9/16/23 at 7:36 am to Shanegolang
A long overcoat is the most effective flash suppressor
Posted on 9/16/23 at 7:41 am to Kracka
Army 10th mountain division
Posted on 9/16/23 at 8:59 am to willymeaux
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Vietnam War/AVRN tiger stripe camo a close second:
This!!!
Posted on 9/16/23 at 9:01 am to willymeaux
The Roughriders navy blue and khaki
Posted on 9/16/23 at 9:12 am to Cheese Grits
Off-topic on an OT thread, but my prime comic-book days were 1966-68ish, and they were 12 cents then. Had a few issues of Our Army At War / Sgt Rock and G.I. Combat (with the J.E.B. Stuart Haunted Tank.) Oh, and the uniforms were drawn pretty cool (we now bring you back to your regularly-scheduled topic.)
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