Sivart

I just picked this up at a local show, I can't find any makers marks and was wondering if the clamshell disks are maker specific.

Thanks,

Sivart

Thanks stu

Sivart :cheers:

I just got this HJ pin, I think it is an original but not sure. No marks on the back, I am assuming that is because it is porcelain or maybe ceramic.

Any thoughts appreciated!

Sivart

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Bar No. 2

10 place/4 row ribbon bar for a officer or senior NCO (???) with:

1. Bronze Star Medal

2. Air Force Commendation Medal

3. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with the Star

4. Army Good Conduct Medal (what is this device on it???)

5. Air Force Good Conduct Medal with the leave

6. National Defence Service Medal

7. ???

8. ???

9. Vietnam Service Medal

10. Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

The device on the Good Conduct Medal denotes years of service, one 'knot' for every three years. The award is for GOOD CONDUCT, so it seems this soldier managed to stay of of trouble for a good while. Not too sure how strictly this was enforced over the years............

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Enjoy!

Sivart

Here are two different sets of rank boards I recently got. The set in the plastic looks to have never been removed from the packaging, so maybe it is the original packaging.

Nice one Is the ribbon fully intact? Cant see properly from the pics.

Hello Kryptos,

The ribbon isn't full legnth, it is about 38mm or so long.

Sivart :cheers:

Medics don't really do post blast cleanup, that is to say that a seperate medical group isn't dispatchd to pick up pieces or anything...... which in no way does or should qualify someone for the CMB. Perhaps being too close to the process has made me a bit of a cynic when it comes to badges and awards and the like...

Extrapolating information posted at the US Army Institute of Heraldry.

"Subsequent to 24 May 1965 (shortly after the deployment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade as the first brigade or higher unit in country) the requirement for at least 30 consecutive days in a combat zone" was established "provided all other requirements have been met."

I should add that soldiers assigned to infantry unit positions that would normally qualify for the CIB (Platoon Leaders, Company Commanders, etc) could also be awarded the CIB if "contact" and "in country" requirements were met. This allowed personnel from branches detailed to infantry assignments (with MACV Advisory duty with infantry, airborne units or with US line units) to earn the badge as well. I often thought it strange to see armor officers wearing the CIB but given the small armor "boot print" in country and the many armor types detailed infantry and performed as infantry, to my way of thinking, these awards were perfectly justified.

I'm not sure if that applies anymore, my current CO is an armor officer. He is eligible for the CIB (other than the fact that he is not an 11A) but he wears the CAB. I will have to ask him if this is a preference thing, but I don't think that it is. I am pretty sure that you have to be in an 11 or 18 series MOS or CMF to be eligible, branch detailed officers don?t change their MOS when they go to a different kind of unit. But I could be wrong, I sure have before!!

Sivart

The truth is that CIB/CAB awards are given by some commands for riding in a vehicle as part of a patrol in which one vehicle is hit by an IED. Not necessarily the awardees vehicle. The division I was attached to in 2005-2006 had a 'proximity' policy for awarding these badges, i.e. if you were within X number of meters of the blast then you qualify. This also applied to non infantry types who were within X number of meters of indirect fire while on a FOB.

As far as the BS PH posthumous awards, it was much more typical to receive both awards regardless of rank from about 2003 to 2006. My company commander and his enlisted gunner were killed by the same blast in 2006; both received the BS and PH, though the difference in rank and responsibility was vastly different. More recently, our KIA were awarded medals more for their rank than the circumstances of their death, so more ARCOMs than BSs. The whole awards system is BS (no, not Bronze Star this time), it could really use some serious scrutiny.

Sivart

Thanks for looking,

Sivart :cheers:

And finally, I had to hijack my 3 year old daughters stuffed pony to model this mask on as I didn't have a fake head at hand. She was excited to see that her pony got a new "hat" and wanted to try it on as well....... good thing her mother was around because I might have let her!!

Inside markings

Outside markings

Lenses

Both lenses are marked the same

more canister

I picked up this gas mask at the local floh markt today. I believe it to be the VM37, the type without the strap in the rear. I have no experience with this kind of stuff before, so I have no idea if it is real or not. It was so cheap that even if it is fake it is no real loss to me. Can anyone tell me if it is the real deal or not??? Are these really common???

Thanks,

Sivart

Canister back

A cased award is a happy award!!

Sivart :cheers:

Hinge and Maker

Thanks to Hauptman, my gold Mutterkreuz has finally found a home. A real gentleman, Dan had this baby in the mail to me really fast.

Front and back

Often times "real" MP units are deployed to places where their experience is needed, and they are replaced by reservists who have been given a crash course in how to be an MP. So you end up with a FA reserve battery policing the posts while the real MP's are off in the desert somewhere. At least that has been the trend here at my post over the last 6 or so years.

Sivart

Great looking display Paul!

Thanks for the relplies confirming that for me. If anyone has any use for this at all, let me know and I will see about sending it your way.

Sivart

Has anyone seen this patch before??

Is this item in current use by the Bundeswehr? I picked it up for a few bucks assuming it was a fantasy item, but just in case.............

Thanks,

Sivart :cheers: