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SF was part of "Conventional" US Army budgeting until the Nunn-Cohen Act established USSOCOM with separate MFP-11 Special Operations Service-like spending authority in 1987. If it wasn't standard Army issue (with the exception of classified funding) you didn't get it.
The 80s was the beginning of the era of gear that "Folds up small, rolls out big, weighs nothing, in outrageous colors no one in the Leg Army has."
SOPMOD didn't get established until the early 90s.
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