wwii axis reenactment forum

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Tropical bluse before weathering.

Both cap and bluse from ATF

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I have missed this post somehow.

Here is info on the guys out of Colorado:

http://cmhg.net/

To get back on topic;

I really don't like poodles much.

I take it that you haven't met a single veteran? Who are you addressing? I have met and spoken at length to Rad Army veterans over the last decade. I helped edit the rememberences of the veterans of the 70th Tank Battalion (US) for their book, 'Strike Swiftly', the their second volume on the war in...

Not worried about translation difficulties, no problem, Mikkel. My point was not to say modern military practices are the same as WWII. I was talking about carrying 'stuff'. Most of the equipment we took into Afghanistan was private purchase. We got a basic load from CIF, and then added much to it. ...

I will post this, not as a historical perspective, but from my own experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. I noticed that before we deployed the first time (although I had been in Desert Storm some ten years prior, I too, had the same mentality) to Afghanistan we stuffed as much crap as we could carry ...

I have recently joined a group in Colorado Springs, the Kamfgruppe Von Rybus. I can't say enough about the assistance they have given me so far. I remind you, I have never don a German impression before and so I know about as much on German uniforms and equipment as you can fit into a small tea cup....

Franz repper wrote:

dutch508 wrote:I plan on retiring from the military in the next three years after 23 in uniform.

Welcome to the Forum I hope thats not the Same uniform you have been in for 23 years

Nope. They've changed the damm thing three times so far.

Dutch here, recent recruit with the Kamfgruppe in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Although I've been reenacting for the last 20 years this is my first attempt at German. So far I've found mch information on this forum, and plan on learning more as time goes by. I plan on retiring from the military in th...