The ol "Gabe TM"

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Richard

I'd say '84. Notice the SF Tabs.

I knew about half the NCOs on that team. One of them, Ricky Ervin, came to us in B/1-7th as a CPL out of SFQC in '82 IIRC and was still there when I left in June '83, so it would have been after that time.

As for LTs in Group - they weren't plentiful, for sure, because branches at that time were telling them SF wasn't such a good idea, but two of us in 1-7th were prior service SF NCOs commissioned from OCS and Det Cdrs as 2LTs, and about 1/3 of our ODAs had 1LT XOs. Later, as a 1LT Det Cdr, I also had a recent SFOC 1LT grad as my Det XO for 4 months to prep him to take the ODA (a SCUBA det) prior to my moving to become the ODB XO for MAJ Jones.

Such were the times.

Richard

Maybe in the NG and Reserve SF units.... not the AD units.

[PSM]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

Along with taper to fit, the starch uniform 107 was about the stupidest thing "someone" dreamed up..

LMAO

It sucked in the field but I did like it when I was instructing. I looked strack while the students looked like they slept in theirs. But, being a smaller guy, I had mine tailored on Oki. I kept getting Arty-15s for wearing pegged uniforms. They were tailored to the regs but no one bothered to measure them. Oh, well. It kept me from spending money on weekends.

Pat

[glebo]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

That was pretty cool. They should use something like that in a movie.

I'm just wondering, how many cans of spray starch that young Capt. used on his BDUs?

Awww, c'mon man, everyone knows they went to Kims on Yadkin Rd and got "Heavy Starch"...

Tore the hell out of button holes though....but damn sure looked good...for "display of course"...