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Originally Posted by Richard (Post 589864)

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.

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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK (Post 590090)

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. :D 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. ;) :D

Pat

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Originally Posted by Sdiver (Post 590089)

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

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"...:p