Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:33 amPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:01 am- Cloudy"ERDL also is an acronym for, I believe, Experimental Research and Design Laboratory"
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory (per "U.S. Army Uniforms of the Vietnam War" by Shelby Stanton). I'd also like to see more T28 photos!
Alan
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:41 am- Cloudy" I'd also like to see more T28 photos!
Alan
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:38 pm
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:07 am- Doug_Kibbey- Cloudy"ERDL also is an acronym for, I believe, Experimental Research and Design Laboratory"
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory (per "U.S. Army Uniforms of the Vietnam War" by Shelby Stanton). I'd also like to see more T28 photos!
Alan
Thanks, "Experimental Research" does seem a little redundant. Funny, but that term today, when applied to uniforms, seems pretty much limited to militaria collector websites. In practice, we usually called it "leaf pattern", but probably mainly to distinguish it from "Tiger Stripe".
Haven't seen the book you mention, but I did see a ~$50 coffee table book on Tiger Stripes at a gunshow last year (and they weren't even "issue"). I almost got it to try to track mine down since they still have Asian labels in them, but that seemed extravagent.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:30 am- Doug_Kibbey- Cloudy"ERDL also is an acronym for, I believe, Experimental Research and Design Laboratory"
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory (per "U.S. Army Uniforms of the Vietnam War" by Shelby Stanton). I'd also like to see more T28 photos!
Alan
Thanks, "Experimental Research" does seem a little redundant.
It's a decent and inexpensive overview of US Army gear for the times that you find personal gear at the surplus store and wonder what in the heck it is. It does show a picture of the "what were they thinking?" tropical tricorne hat of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry which is worth the price of admission... Thanks for the T28 photo - I haven't seen it before.
[/img]Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:36 am- CloudyIt's a decent and inexpensive overview of US Army gear for the times that you find personal gear at the surplus store and wonder what in the heck it is. It does show a picture of the "what were they thinking?" tropical tricorne hat of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry which is worth the price of admission... Thanks for the T28 photo - I haven't seen it before.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:05 amAll times are GMT - 6 Hours