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Vietnam Helmets
« on: July 14, 2010, 01:12:34 AM »
I just recently got a vietnam helmet and it had a helmet cover that was reversable it had erdle then it had a tan camo on the other side dose any body no what kind of camo that is
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2010, 02:49:20 AM »
I'm no Vietnam expert, but I don't ever recall hearing about any such covers... I know the helmet covers issued to Marines in the Pacific later in WWII were reversible, but if it's ERDL on one side then that can't be it

EDIT: Are you sure it's ERDL?
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2010, 03:03:27 AM »
Hmm... Perhaps if you posted some pictures, we could give you more help? I don't recognize the helmet cover at this moment... If you show me a picture I might remember.
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 04:22:27 AM »
Barney, that is, I believe, a Mitchell-pattern helmet cover.

It is this:

The cover that you have has faded quite a bit.
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2010, 08:14:06 PM »
Ziggy.. please if you dont know what you are talking about dont answer... you just confusing the poor kid... anyways... It is a vietnam pattern helmet cover. They called it the Mitchel pattern of camouflage. Its not ERDL... as ERDL does not have a reversible side. ERDL helmet covers never saw use in vietnam, well i take that back the embassy guards can be seen with them in 1975. Though when it comes to Mitchel covers u may THINK they only had one side, as that is the side you normally see. Though in Khe-Sahn the marines were in a terrain that was all red dirt... almost no foliage so you see alot of guys wearing the Mitchel covers on the reverse brown side.
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2010, 01:45:51 AM »
Sorry, mate, but when I hear reversible Veitnam camo anything, that's the first thing to pop to mind (I love the pattern just a little bit too much  :P). I also did not know that Mitchel had a brown side (Because, as you said, it was not often seen)... You learn something new everyday, as they say, eh?
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2010, 02:08:13 AM »
If I recall, in Col. Hackworth's book Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, he wrote that he had his whole battalion wear their covers brown side-out, to cover up the graffiti draftees had drawn on the green-side.
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2010, 06:40:01 PM »
Never read the book, but I had a friend of mine show me his helmet cover from when he was over there, and the green side was covered in graffiti... and his company commander  made him wear his helmet cover brown side out to cover up what he had on his helmet.
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Re: Vietnam Helmets
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2010, 02:08:50 AM »
Thanks guys for all the info
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