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    Contractor Gear: A Collectors' Guide to Weapons, Private-Purchase and Service-Issue Clothing and Equipment as used by Civilian Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

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    Post by joshd2 Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:19 pm

    Book coming out  Jan 2017 from Schiffer Publishing.

    https://www.amazon.com/Contractor-Gear-Private-Purchase-Service-Issue-Contractors/dp/076435258X/ref=sr_1_46?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472860762&sr=1-46&keywords=iraq

    Description from Amazon:

    This book is a comprehensive collectors’ guide to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) civilian contractors’ private-purchase and service-issue clothing, equipment, and weapons as they were worn and used in the field between 2002 and 2014. A host of detailed photographs show what civilian contractors both in combat and in non-combat roles looked like in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the first militaria book that presents actual configurations of clothing, equipment, as well as weapons of civilian contractors in as near to realistic configurations as is practically possible. The majority of items presented in this book are bringbacks from Iraq and Afghanistan, where the author worked in different capacities as a civilian contractor. Items shown in the book used to be the author’s own work clothes, equipment and tools, or they belonged to fellow contractors who worked with him in different places at different times.


    About the Author
    Zammis Schein worked in Afghanistan as an escort interpreter, an English teacher and a field interpreter trainer on several assignments. He fell in love with the country. He was enchanted by the people, the languages, the rich culture, and the colorful history of Afghanistan. He started his collection of contractor clothing and equipment while he was working in Afghanistan.

    Something to look forward to.
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    Post by Ewart Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:32 pm

    Could be avoid few months with that and the Desert Uniform book out the month before.
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    Post by Doin' the Deid Wed Sep 07, 2016 8:24 pm

    I placed an order for a copy a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully it won't take too long to be released.
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    Post by Nkomo Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:34 pm

    Does anyone have any information on when this book will be released?
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    Post by kriegsmodell Thu May 25, 2017 5:54 pm

    nkomo wrote:  Does anyone have any information on when this book will be released?  

    Amazon has them in stock and available for immediate shipment.



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    "I looked up at the bunker in front of me and saw a khaki-uniformed NVA with a pith helmet, chest web gear, green Bata boots and an AK, Type 56, and no other identifying insignia. Then I shot him." -- Sergeant Tony "Fast Eddie" Anderson, RT Kansas, TF1AE, 1971

    "My God, where do we find these men?" - President George H. W. Bush commenting on 1st SFOD-Delta after the Operation Acid Gambit rescue of Kurt Muse.

    "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me." - Inscription on the dog tag resting on the flag-draped homeward bound casket of an American Special Opearations warrior killed in action in Afghanistan, July 2005. - Dick Couch - Chosen Soldier

    "Choosing to die resisting rather than live submitting they fled only from dishonor and to meet danger face to face." - Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr, USASOC Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Ceremony, 25 May 2012.
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    Post by Doin' the Deid Thu May 25, 2017 6:03 pm

    Doin' the Deid wrote:I placed an order for a copy a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully it won't take too long to be released.

    Just received mine from the publisher. At first glance it looks very good, but I hope to spend the weekend reading it in detail.

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