Any interest in Vietnam military gear?

[Business_Casual]

"Never get out of the boat."

LOL, exactly

[Dennis]

I assume any PBR fans have seen this? Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear and Grand Tour fame takes a recreated PBR down the rivers of Cambodia, through Vietnam, and to the South China Sea. Hilarous and great scenes of PBRs doing crazy things as well as showing pros and cons of the jet propulsion system.

https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=...are_seas&r=web

[sgtrock82]

I'll be there in August and looking for surplus military items to bring back for sale. GI patches, ALICE web gear, Vietnamese army surplus uniforms, hat's, VC. PJs?

I'm also investigating if there are any PBR Mk2,'s left over in private hands or used by the Vietnamese Navy.

10 years in the Outback and out of focus with new products...bear with me.

There seems(or at least seemed pre covid) to be a growing market for Vietnam Militaria. Some short run and trial run nylon jungle gear and pre LC-1 has gained alot of collector interest. Complete light weight ruck sets and the indigenous style rucks usually bring several hundred bucks each on the bay.

Everything an infantryman carried would be worth something, depends on if its cheap enough to justify draggong it back here. The rucks, yeah I think so, and uniforms as well. Butt packs too, they get alot if interest.

Typical web gear may not quite yet unless its large sizes or really nice shape. Anything verifiable NVA would probable do ok too. But anything available in quantity in sellable westerm sizes Id be suspect of.

Though if you could source a line of new made western sized Nam style tiger stripes from the original factory you would probably become a minor militaria god

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[Alex V]

I assume any PBR fans have seen this? Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear and Grand Tour game takes a recreated PBR down the rivers of Cambodia, through Vietnam, and to the South China Sea. Hilarous and great scenes of PBRs doing crazy things as well as showing pros and cons of the jet propulsion system.

https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=...are_seas&r=web

I was just about to post this. Seems like there is a company marking new ones. I’d assume for less money than a real one.

[Det-Sog]

I'd give my left nut for an original triangle hand-guard M16-a1 in good working condition. ETA: If not that, a S&W mod 76 sub-gun.

That said, having been through eastern block countries looking for cold war stuff, everything in 'Nam that has not been kept by their military, is probably counterfeit. All of the real stuff was snatched up years ago. There is a MASSIVE industry for counterfeiting war memorabilia.

[SteyrAUG]

That said, having been through eastern block countries looking for cold war stuff, everything in 'Nam that has not been kept by their military, is probably counterfeit. All of the real stuff was snatched up years ago. There is a MASSIVE industry for counterfeiting war memorabilia.

No Joke. In the years after the US left and the North invaded the south, within 10 years people were starving. Anything from the war got repurposed. There are no original uniforms, gear, belts, patches or any of that shit in VN and there certainly isn't any original captured american gear. It all got chopped up, melted down and made into something else or eaten.

Everything sold on EB and everything in the VN market is 100% guaranteed counterfeit crap. It is worse than counterfeit nazi stuff and that's pretty bad.

If you didn't have a relative personally bring it back from Nam, it's fake.

[Rrotz]

Well, my trip looks less and less likely but I bought flight insurance so I can rebook a new date. I'm going to see my Viet girlfriend in my avatar. She's already researching where to find equipment and said it's easy to bribe VN quartermasters to sell gear on the black market.

Where's the he best place to look for a PBR still in restorable condition? The Rung Sat special zone?

10 years in the Outback and out of focus with new products...bear with me.

[mack7.62]

Nam today is doing quite well it appears, or was before Covid, active relativity cheap tourist industry, friendlier business policies than China, watched some videos on youtube and quite interesting.

[yellowfin]

I've become quite a fan of Vietnamese coffee since being stuck at home.