Vietnamese Ranger Insignia,Headgear & Uniforms.

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more 13...again...

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more 15, final!

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I don't know why my pictures are not showing up on the thread right...but here goes again...

[thefallenbuddha]

Awesome Tabs!
It's really great to see collections like this, and the photos look good!

I really liked seeing the variations in the AnLoc Tabs. I wonder if there are also variations for BinhLong?

And, the Reconnaissance Qualitifications are great too! Not to mention the silks, and everything else!

On the topic of the English "RANGER" tabs, I am curious if these were worn by BDQ (Vietnamese) or were these for advisors / incountry made for American Rangers, etc?

I also have this one, shown here, slightly different from the ones in your album:

[nguoi tien su]

Impressive to say the least !

There is one Trinh Sat tab misspelt Chinh Sat. This is a phonetics mistake, a problem sometimes found in the Vietnamese language, even now.

[Patrick Dempsey]

Hunter/Darwin,

outstanding array of insignia displayed.

[thefallenbuddha]

Hi Darwin,

I am very surprised with the making of those patches ? Could you please dig on the subject ?

Thanks.

NTS

The five BDQ pocket patches posted together in the same post are all machine made. I am not sure how many more variations of the colored wreath exist, but I believe there is at least another version with the wreath in pink/red, which I seem to recall seeing at one point. Each of these patches are also slightly different in diameter/size.

[D. Michael Kim]

On the topic of the English "RANGER" tabs, I am curious if these were worn by BDQ (Vietnamese) or were these for advisors / incountry made for American Rangers, etc?

In reference to the above, the only Vietnamese that wore the American Ranger Tab were those who completed the course successfully at Ft. Benning.

The Vietnamese wore the Biet Dong Quan Tab, which were made in three color variations.

The in country made Ranger tabs were used by the Co Van.

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Thanks Darwin.

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Darwin,
Here is two more variations, including the pink version

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now here are some scrolls:

variations include pink vs. red border; and camo vs. black background

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this site hates me...trying again

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more2, the sbudued 33rd is Japanese made to the best of my memory, though I may be wrong