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Posted: 12/31/2008 2:51:48 PM EDT
The retro AR15 stuff has spread to other areas of the body and I think it may consume me. 
I got an as new M65 extreme cold weather jacket today (date 1968, I think) from Gunnys and have some questions. How the hell do you attach the hood? Here are some pics: 
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Shades of Ice Station Zebra with Jim Brown and Patrick McGoohan...... Not to high jack thread but speaking of Patrick McGoohan, my favorite childhood movie of all time is out on DVD 1964 Dr. Syn or The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff160/nosepiece/012.jpg I remember that film! That was cool..... I didn't even know it's name. |
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Not to high jack thread but speaking of Patrick McGoohan, my favorite childhood movie of all time is out on DVD 1964 Dr. Syn or The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. That was a series, IIRC, on Disney's Wide World...McGoohan was a pastor by day, a revolutionary by night... +1 for it...as well as Texas John Slaughter, The Nine Lives of Elfago Baca, and even Davy Crockett... 
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Not to high jack thread but speaking of Patrick McGoohan, my favorite childhood movie of all time is out on DVD 1964 Dr. Syn or The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. That was a series, IIRC, on Disney's Wide World...McGoohan was a pastor by day, a revolutionary by night... +1 for it...as well as Texas John Slaughter, The Nine Lives of Elfago Baca, and even Davy Crockett... He played in "The Prisoner", which is probably the most weird TV series of all time. He as also Longshanks in Braveheart. You know, the dude that threw the homo kid out the window. |
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He played in "The Prisoner", which is probably the most weird TV series of all time. I have the complete series on DVD.
I never saw or even heard of the Scarecrow movie, but as it was a "cliffhanger" kind of series (like "Spin and Marty"), it wouldn't have been hard to string 3 or 4 parts into a TV movie. Disney was way ahead of his time doing those mini-series on his Wide World. Back to the Army cold weather parka: I've never seen an Army parka...The USAF parkas I've owned all had integral hoods...Split hood for the N2B; solid hood on the N3...I usually just wore my field jacket with a liner... 
But as it's 11ºF outside right now, I'll be pulling the N2B out for the drive to work tomorrow...
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"Be seeing you". Ha, ha. "The Prisoner" was awesome. Only seen a couple of episodes, some network ran em a few years back, BBC maybe? Awesome. Did it ever conclude?
Hey EA H-BAR nice retro AR. Love the gray park. I also have a pre ban EA 20" H-Bar, white stamp and all. Its the only AR that survived a recent culling of the herd. Got two builds going though and I'm seriously looking at doing a retro. Quite a while back I had an SP1 but hated the non spec pivot screw etc. Its great we can build authentic repros today. |
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Not to high jack thread but speaking of Patrick McGoohan, my favorite childhood movie of all time is out on DVD 1964 Dr. Syn or The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. That was a series, IIRC, on Disney's Wide World...McGoohan was a pastor by day, a revolutionary by night... +1 for it...as well as Texas John Slaughter, The Nine Lives of Elfago Baca, and even Davy Crockett... NOW I remember it! I recognized the scarecrow in the picture but couldn't recall the show/movie until you added the description. I watched it a lot too. |
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"Be seeing you". Ha, ha. "The Prisoner" was awesome. Only seen a couple of episodes, some network ran em a few years back, BBC maybe? Awesome. Did it ever conclude? Hey EA H-BAR nice retro AR. Love the gray park. I also have a pre ban EA 20" H-Bar, white stamp and all. Its the only AR that survived a recent culling of the herd. Got two builds going though and I'm seriously looking at doing a retro. Quite a while back I had an SP1 but hated the non spec pivot screw etc. Its great we can build authentic repros today. There are actually 2 endings to The Prisoner. |
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That jacket is one oversized son of a bitch. I ordered a medium and I think I could fit it over my regular M65 with liner. The hood is big enough to wear a helmet under. We were issued parkas like that in Germany in '84. Actually I believe they were designed to be worn over the M65 field jacket and the helmet . The army was all about dressing in layers to stay warm. It was stressed that you were not supposed to sweat in your cold weather gear. If you were working up a sweat, you were supposed to take off a layer. We were issued "Mickey Mouse" boots too but we were told not to wear them because they made your feet sweat while working in them and then if you quit working so hard you could get frost bite very easily. Doc |
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We were issued parkas like that in Germany in '84. Actually I believe they were designed to be worn over the M65 field jacket and the helmet . The army was all about dressing in layers to stay warm. It was stressed that you were not supposed to sweat in your cold weather gear. If you were working up a sweat, you were supposed to take off a layer. We were issued "Mickey Mouse" boots too but we were told not to wear them because they made your feet sweat while working in them and then if you quit working so hard you could get frost bite very easily. Doc Yep! CIF issued the parka, parka insert and hood. Mittens as well. We wore this gear a lot out in Graf’ or Hohenfels. I had the Mickey Mouse boots as well. And you are correct, we never wore them either. |
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I had a pair of white Mickey Mouse boots with no liners that I wore loading ski lifts in very cold winter, and they beat the hell out of Sorels. (I've had both) How a piece of rubber with no insulation other than air can do that, I don't know. Wish I still had them. I paid $25 for them at an Army /Navy store now they are $90! They did get a little wet inside, so I wiped them out every night. My feet never got cold in those, even standing still for hours outside in bitter cold in snow. I would really like another pair for my survival kit. As long as you can dry them out regularly they rock. Ugly as sin, and people laughed, but my feet were warm.
The other radical thing I wore, (typically with leather logger boots) was Polypropelene socks. My Stepmother had sent me a pair, but they were the ugliest things you'd ever seen, and had a compression ring around the ankle, so they felt weird, so I never wore them until one day when my laundry wasn't dry in time and I was going to be late tp work at the ski area. Funny thing, my feet didn't get cold that night. Next night they did. When I wore my ugly socks the following night, strangely my feet stayed warm, even once my boots got soaked. I experiemented back and forth a few nights, but it didn't take long until I was convinced - Polypro is the shit! |
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We were issued parkas like that in Germany in '84. Actually I believe they were designed to be worn over the M65 field jacket and the helmet . The army was all about dressing in layers to stay warm. It was stressed that you were not supposed to sweat in your cold weather gear. If you were working up a sweat, you were supposed to take off a layer. We were issued "Mickey Mouse" boots too but we were told not to wear them because they made your feet sweat while working in them and then if you quit working so hard you could get frost bite very easily. Doc I was issued the Parka, MM Boots and wool long underwear for Mountain Warfare Training in 88. We skiid in the MM boots, warm but not made for a lot of physical work. Always wanted the parka and finally got one for Xmas in 99 from my kids. They got it at a surplus place for $40. I love it. The hood attaches with the green buttons. Your look like they are missing. The parka is designed to be worn over the M65 over the wool shirt over the wool underwear. I have an old Army cold weather manual that has pics. The pics have M14s, wood skis and climbing skins in them. Yep! CIF issued the parka, parka insert and hood. Mittens as well. We wore this gear a lot out in Graf’ or Hohenfels. I had the Mickey Mouse boots as well. And you are correct, we never wore them either. |
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