Reply With QuoteI saw some pictures of USN Seals wearing blue jeans. My question is what the reason for that?
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In best Discovery Channel style, but at least it includes some nice footage.
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I saw some pictures of USN Seals wearing blue jeans. My question is what the reason for that?
They held up much better to the constant wear and tear of their wet AO (primarily the Delta region with its rivers and canals), plus they offered more protection from thorns and leaches.Originally Posted by DID
I believe that the Navy has always worn blue jeans for work uniform.
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About the Ravens docu. In part 4 at around 1:50 you'll see a C-123 or a C-7 dropping some kind of incendiary ordonance. Any idea what exactly that is?
Dunno if this has been answered yet but that is a SOG CCN recon team, although I'm not sure which team. Circa 1969.
who are those vietnamase personel, are they ARVN or CIDG?????
Just found this thread, wanted to say thank you all.
Referring to a bit of an old post but I'm not totally sure this is a Kiwi pilot. He's definitely navy of somewhere, whether he was an RNZN pilot I'm not totally certain. I know the RNZAF sent pilots to 9 Squadron and they flew operationally in the war but I didn't think it happened for RNZN aircrew. So I'm a little doubtful but happy to be proven wrong.
@ Zorro I just checked my copy of Target Charlie which is a comprehensive history of Australian aviation in Vietnam and it mentions the 16 RNZAF pilots who flew with 9 Squadron RAAF during the war but no mention of any RNZN personnel. However 9 Sqn did have a small detachment of Royal Australian Navy pilots for about a year and with a little googling I found this pic of their commander, RAN Lieutenant Commander R.A Waddell-Wood, who is the spitting image of the bloke in the picture.
Look at that! Nice work Sandy. Thanks for the info, sometimes the old brain gets it reasonably right!
Thks for the photos ! Tiger Stripes is the best cam ever...
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9...rdabnin196.jpg
One question please, without disrespect what were the limits for eyeglasses wearing persons ? i dont see them in recent photos of special forces from around the globe (except those protection things) i know about lasik and other modern stuff. For someone with myopia its really bad to not have glasses on when looking at a distance and/or night. I repeat its just a question out of curiosity and nothing else, thanks.
Jim Bolen, 1-0 of RT Auger before a mission (as a door gunner on a Huey gunship...)
I have just posted the first of a series of interviews with SOG legend Jim Bolen. They include a lot of his own photos, and his explanations of what they show, and I'm going to post one interview a month.
This is the first: http://peteralanlloyd.com/general-ne...oss-the-fence/
^ Interesting, thanks!
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