"Flack jackets and M-16s" Topic
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| HammerHead | 23 Apr 2017 1:20 a.m. PST |
Listen up grunts! I know the US troops started out with the M-14 as a standard, with out a flack jacket, at what time in the war did flack jacket become standard issue? Was that before or after the M-16 was introduced? Like to get my troops correct. |
79thPA  | 23 Apr 2017 5:38 a.m. PST |
Try this: link The flak vest was in concurrent use with the M-14. |
 Legion 4 | 23 Apr 2017 5:53 a.m. PST |
Yes, that old version of the "Flak Vest" had be around for sometime. In the 101 in the early '80s, we were still issued them, IIRC … |
| Major Mike | 23 Apr 2017 7:17 a.m. PST |
We had the old flak vests until 1987 in the 1st ID at Ft. Riley. |
| Irish Marine | 23 Apr 2017 11:02 a.m. PST |
I had the old flak jacket and steel pot in Infantry Training School in 86 at Camp Lejeune |
| sgt Dutch | 23 Apr 2017 3:11 p.m. PST |
I wore a flak vest in 1968 in Vietnam. At that time my M16 was an old one with the three prong flash suppressor. |
| capnvic | 27 Apr 2017 11:45 p.m. PST |
I wore the old flak vest and started with the steel pot in 1983. It was no fun to wear the flak vest and carry an M60. |
| Legion 4 | 28 Apr 2017 6:45 a.m. PST |
We didn't get the Kevlar helm until about '84. Still worn the old "steel pot". Like many here … |
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