Produced for service during the Vietnam War, this U.S. Navy jungle jacket belongs to a generation of uniforms stripped to the essentials, cut from lightweight ripstop cotton for a war fought in heat, mud, monsoon rain, and dense vegetation. Retaining its original Naval Advisory Group shoulder patch, U.S. Navy identification, Aviation Boatswain's Mate insignia, and "Laury" name tape, it preserves the unlikely overlap of flight-deck ratings and jungle postings that became an enduring feature of American service in Vietnam.
The jungle jacket became one of the conflict's great common denominators, worn by advisors, aircrews, infantrymen, and support personnel alike across South Vietnam. Regardless of specialty or assignment, an extraordinary range of personnel passed through Southeast Asia in some version of the same lightweight field uniform.
Against the jungle jacket's spare construction, the accumulation of patches, embroidery, and identification introduces a layer of individual history, transforming a standard issue garment into a more specific record of wartime service.
Vietnam-era jungle jacket, naval advisory group
550 USD
Produced for service during the Vietnam War, this U.S. Navy jungle jacket belongs to a generation of uniforms stripped to the essentials, cut from lightweight ripstop cotton for a war fought in heat, mud, monsoon rain, and dense vegetation. Retaining its original Naval Advisory Group shoulder patch, U.S. Navy identification, Aviation Boatswain's Mate insignia, and "Laury" name tape, it preserves the unlikely overlap of flight-deck ratings and jungle postings that became an enduring feature of American service in Vietnam.
The jungle jacket became one of the conflict's great common denominators, worn by advisors, aircrews, infantrymen, and support personnel alike across South Vietnam. Regardless of specialty or assignment, an extraordinary range of personnel passed through Southeast Asia in some version of the same lightweight field uniform.
Against the jungle jacket's spare construction, the accumulation of patches, embroidery, and identification introduces a layer of individual history, transforming a standard issue garment into a more specific record of wartime service.
U.S. Navy jungle jacket produced for service during the Vietnam War. Olive drab ripstop cotton poplin construction with four-pocket configuration, “Laury” name tape, U.S. Navy identification, Aviation Boatswain's Mate insignia, and Naval Advisory Group shoulder patch.
