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Recently I was at a militaria show and long story short, I came home with a Ukrainian early OIF collection!
Here are some pics...
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artur95- Corporal
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Location : Chicago, Ill.
Hello everyone,
Recently I was at a militaria show and long story short, I came home with a Ukrainian early OIF collection!
Here are some pics...
artur95- Corporal
- Posts : 59
Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
artur95- Corporal
- Posts : 59
Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
The 5th Mechanized Brigade was a Ukrainian unit that was only active from 2003 to 2004 in Iraq. I am assuming that these patches were made in theatre.
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Here is a soldier's book, what it is about I don't know...
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Small Ukrainian booklet with English translation.
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Beat up helmet cover with a small suprise...
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
... Arabic writing. Does anyone have an idea what it says?
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Four boonie caps.
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Modified gun holster
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
To give a little background for the collection, it came from a US OIF veteran who worked with the Ukrainians at the same base. When the Ukrainians were leaving, they dumped a lot of their stuff in a dumpster.
usall- Staff Sergeant Class I
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Location : Belgium
Very nice ! Great ukrainian collection !
MyZone- Chief Warrant Officer Class I
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Location : East Coast US
Very good grouping.....a keeper for sure !
MZ♠
MZ♠
artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Hey everyone.
I met up with the veteran who sold the Ukrainian items to me at a show, and he was kind enough to share some of his photos with me.
Here's some information about his time with the Ukrainians:
"My platoon-1st pltn, Bco.-moved to Al Kut in November 03 to train the Iraqi Civil Defense Corp(ICDC). Over a four month period we trained an 800 man battalion-half of whom went to the Ukrainians at Kut and the the other half went to the Polish army at Babylon."
This is the entrance to the training camp.
I met up with the veteran who sold the Ukrainian items to me at a show, and he was kind enough to share some of his photos with me.
Here's some information about his time with the Ukrainians:
"My platoon-1st pltn, Bco.-moved to Al Kut in November 03 to train the Iraqi Civil Defense Corp(ICDC). Over a four month period we trained an 800 man battalion-half of whom went to the Ukrainians at Kut and the the other half went to the Polish army at Babylon."
This is the entrance to the training camp.
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artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
Here he is with two soldiers.
artur95- Corporal
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And one of the photos that I find most interesting...
"When the first contingent of their troops-36th Mechanized Infantry-were getting ready to go home, they started throwing all of their old uniforms and equipment away. Their dumpsters were overflowing with bags of equipment and uniforms."
Provenance that the uniform came from a dumpster!
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artur95- Corporal
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Join date : 2012-06-19
Location : Chicago, Ill.
As you can see by the photo above the Ukrainians threw out a number of their uniforms, including old Soviet and woodland pattern uniforms.
msmith275- Sergeant Class II
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Location : Colorado
Awesome. Hang on to those, they might not be around much longer!