Only when I am begging for change.
I still have my woodland camo m 65 hanging in the closet. I have never removed the sewn on rank insigna from the shoulders, therefore have not worn it in years.
I saw another middle aged man wearing one at a gun show a couple of years ago, He still had his branch, name and enlisted cheverons on his. I thought it inappropriate with civilian clothing.
I still have a few uniforms from my time in service, but these seem to "vanish" into the children's closets- BDU and field jackets go first. Luckily my boots, which took some time to be mine, have stayed with me. I just like to enjoy shorts, never cold enough out here. But, if you take an old BDU and cut them to shorts, I have the best of all worlds. My issue was woodland camo, not the fancy camo available today.
Haha. I swiped my fathers combat jacket, battle dress jacket, boots, flying suit... anything that I could get my hands on when I was a kid. Grew out of it all though, by my late teens.
Great! that means a combined seven years- hope I still have something left in my footlocker.
Oh, I took the footlocker as well.
I had a M65 I wore all the time when I was in college (a long time ago!). This jacket is long gone but this thread has had me thinking of getting a new one. Who makes a good, new M65 that'll fit a middle-aged fat man?