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That's a real shame about PFC Walls. Sorry to hear that.

IIRC, the thought process of the USMC in the late 70s/early 80s was to try to standardize as much as possible, since the Corps was so small and had such limited resources, we wanted to standardize our gear as much as possible to make it easier to deploy on short notice. And with the advent of...

I was in the Marine Corps from 1985-92, as a tank crewman...I was at Camp Pendleton from 1985-88. By then (the mid-80s), the yellow lettering/numbering had been largely replaced with black lettering. NO unit markings were generally present on vehicles assigned to combat units, but there might...