Vietnam Gear

Hey guys, This is just some of my dad's gear he had when he fought in vietnam. Enjoy.

Jacket


Tag on jacket


Shirt


Private chevron(he never did sew on the rest, but i have them)


Boots

front


Back


Dog Tags (note one is covered in rubber cover to prevent them from jingling)



Thats all for now guys, questions and comments appreciated.

What rank was he discharged on?

sergent major. i think.

So he was mainly pushing paper around the office?
Because a SgtMaj is a desk job.
And I thought your dad was more the combat line?

he was a medic,i have to look at the ranks to see bro, i forget, it was the highest one without being an officer. i completely forget, so could you tell me the rank. But i did always ask him why he didnt become and officer but as usual he would say " I dont want to talk about it"

Medic, most likely SgtMaj then.

Medics are a great field, when someone is dieing, who do they call?
It's not the morgue.

Today, the only way to be an officer is to go to ROTC in college.
There may be another way, but I think not.

And from the sounds of it your dad joined the Army out of high school in order to achieve that rank without a formal education.
If he had formal education he would be an officer.

Am I right?

i dont know i dont see him anymore because he is abusive, but he had to go to military highschool, but he didnt join, he got drafted, im really not sure man. He never talked about it much.

It's cool.

I don't care what you did in the military, you helped out.

If there were no medics many people would have died who could have been saved.

me wrote:

Today, the only way to be an officer is to go to ROTC in college.
There may be another way, but I think not.

2 actually

1.) Academy
2.) OCS

Yes I known I was forgetting something.
OCS.

Academy is the same as college.

Yeah, I was going to say academy. I didn't know they covered the dog tags before. Thats interesting.

yeah.

sorry about your dad

its all right, thanks for you concern

I'm pretty sure First Sergeant is higher than Sergeant Major.

You are mistaken, 1st Sgt.(E8 ) is lower than Sgt. Major(E9)

Darn. Just googled the ranking system and I am wrong

wow thats an awesome website:)

I never thought there were nearly that many ranks. Maybe we could use some of those for ranks on this site seeing that people who have a trillion and a half posts don't have a pic for their rank.