My Collection

In an effort to improve the quality of my collection I will be photographing everything I have, anything worth sharing on forums I will keep, the rest I will post on ebay. So here is the best of my collection, except for the thing outside the scope of this forum.

These are most of my six color desert helmet covers for the PASGT helmet. Not included are the ones on helmets. Sorry for the poor photographs, but otherwise I would of had to photograph all 30+ of them by themselves.

First up, ranks, from left to right top to bottom
Drawn Specialist
Drawn Private, promoted later with a different pen to PFC
Drawn Private, later promoted with a different pen to PFC (not an error, I have two like this)
Drawn Specialist
Drawn Corporal
Drawn PFC
Drawn PFC
Drawn Corporal
Drawn Private
Sewn Specialist
Pin holes and Glue in a Specialist shape
Hand Sewn Specialist
Drawn Specialist, uneven fading and thread shows a rank was sewn over it and then removed
Drawn Specialist
Drawn Staff Sergeant
Drawn Specialist
Drawn PFC
Drawn Specialist
Drawn Specialist with a smaller Specialist rank drawn above it
Pin Holes
Sewn Sergeant
Pin Holes
Pin Holes
Pin Holes
Drawn Specialist with glue and thread showing a rank was glued on, sewed down, and removed
Pin Holes with glue the shape of a Specialist rank
Pin Holes
Looks like a Staff Sergeant pin was pinned on, traced in pen, and removed
Sewn PFC

Sorry for the Drawn out list.


Now time for graphitti, many of these are the same covers as above
1st Infantry Division Insignia, A combination of the American Flag and the continental US, drawn by somebody who forgot Texas existed, with #1 Written underneath. Don't mess with U.S.
Nash
Williams KR
Garza, So What

The center of this PsyOps leaflet (everything but the flags)
[Unreadable] V-Low
Some tiny doodle that looks like a flower pot
BH
X-MAN
MOON, moon dog
Dirty Little Boy
Let's do it!, Fun in the Sun 90-91.
I love my [Unreadable]
2 unreadable phrases.


And my favourite
America ☮ will not be Saddamized, Vansant Virginia, A drawing of a Patriot Missile shooting down a Scud that is heading for a camel, War is Hell!!!

Dang Cap. Did you leave any for anyone else?

What's your ebay? I just got a gift card

Bagman6 wrote:Dang Cap.  Did you leave any for anyone else?

Left 500+ blank ones

All of my DCUs

My modded ones, velcro and pocket, x3 possible AFSOC Navy Seal, Navy GITMO, one too generic to tell velcro for flag, name and branch tapes, 4th Infantry glint tape velcro, Navy inshore boat unit 24

3 Airforce,
Airman First Class Hockenbarger
Air Combat Command,
Master Sergeant Bruno, x2 Technical Sergeant Hernandez

17th Fires Brigade, 2nd Lieutenant Moore,
x2 Staff Sergeant Bradley, one has jump wings, one doesn't

3rd Infantry Division,
Sergeant Kelly,
Specialist Pham,
Staff Sergeant McDonald

Johns USMC,
Petty Officer Second Class Arroyo SeaBees,
and x2 Stripped 4th Infantry

25th Infantry Division Staff Sergeant Harrison,
Sergeant Gamble, I'm not sure what unit
Specialist Perry, forgot this unit
Specialist Miller, 3rd Cavalry Regiment x2, one has color flag, one subdued
Houseal, I don't know what rank, it was pin on, 89th Infantry, has a stick of gum that's been out of production since 2006 in the pocket.

You've built a really great collection Cap. Not bad for as you say not having your license yet. Can't imagine what you'll dig up when you start driving. Glad we're not fishing the same hole!

Looking good! Some great DCU's!

More helmet covers, maybe I should only collect helmet covers, I have 60-70 already

PASGT 3 color covers From left to right, a large verco square for glint tape, 2 small squares for glint tape, and the name "Chaddon" sharpied on.

ACH woodland desert reversible covers, 3rd Inf Div with 2 repairs and the name "PFC RICCI" in sharpie, 3rd Inf Div and glint tape, Duct tape and residue from when glint tape was attached, the name "Divine" is written many times, along with a 4 digit number.

From left to right, pre-2006 with the name BAZAN scratched in, pre 2006 camo'd tan, post 2006 camo'd tan, post 2006 camo'd tan, 2010ish gold colored, gold colored camo'd black.

We all do seem to get drawn into our particular niches of collecting without even realizing it at first.

You're right about that Bagman. When most helmet covers are $1-2 its hard to say no.

3 m16/m4 30 round mags, a green follower with JER painted in red on the bottom, green follower with OD duct tape to make it easier to grip, black follower with black duct tape and a paracord loop to make it easier to get out of a pouch,

Cristal water bottle label from Afghanistan, found in a pair of super beat OCP/Multicam Pants. Afghan money brought to the use by a soldier in charge of paying the ANA. Oasis water bottle label from the UAE, found in a pair of beat up UCP pants. Iraqi money captured by an Arizona National Guard MP unit from a Iraq Special forces training base. Iraqi Money with no story.

Safariland 3 color holster with 2 hard sided pistol pouches and an added soft pouch, it came with the 3 m9 mags shown.
Safariland holster made in black and spray painted tan.
Tactical Taylor pouch, with magnets for mag retention,
Safariland holster painted greenish
T.O.P. pouch in tan.
USAF digital tigerstripe pouch

British MK6 Helmet Cover, marked "Homer" on the front, has "H" marked on both ear sections, and eyes drawn on the front



My first EGA marked 6 color helmet cover, which I find kind of odd seeing as I went trhough hundreds of them and didn't find a single one.
There is unreadable writing on the top, and it says "The flight from Somalia 12-93" and "Africa is hot" on the back, I'm guessing it was used in Operation Continue Hope


This one is marked with "A-Pos" and "E-7913"

I regret missing all those nice 6 color helmet covers on ebay.

Used British cover si not current, nice !
Nice collection

Anything with an EGA is always a good find.

Here's a 3rd Infatry Division woodland/desert cover, it has the name "Heath", velcro for glint tape on the woodland side, and glint tape sewn on the desert side. Interestingly the SSI are only on the woodland side, not the desert.



Tan spray painted skullcrusher NOD mount, the loose straps are taped up with duck tape.

Glad to add about 30 more 6 color helmet covers to my collection, they all have $10 price stickers on them but the guy I bought them from had them priced at 20 for $10 and they weren't selling so he was willing to cut me a deal, half were nice and interesting and half were hardly used so I'll be selling those.



From left to right top to bottom:

PFC Patch sewn on and 2 glow in the dark cat eye triangles sewn on the back.
Crude SGT stripes drawn on with pin holes through them.
2 sets of pin holes at different heights and duct tape residue on the top, the loops that attach the cover to the helmet are a strange light blue color, I've encountered several covers not to specifications, probably the covers were in demand so manufactures cut corners to crank them out as fast as possible.
Pin holes and evidence rank was sewn on, squares drawn in pen with bits of string where glint tape was attached.
SPC patch.
SPC patch.
Evidence a rank was sewn on.
SGT patch.
SPC patch.
Super salty cover with Sharon written in red, pin holes, and I [Unreadable] Right!! above a ☮ peace sign.
A salty one with sweat stains and what I think is charcoal from a MOPP suit,
Salty.
Salty.
Pinholes.
1in by 1in glint tape sewn on.
Residue from when a 2x2 in glint tape square was taped on.
Lose threads and shaddowing showing a 1x2in glint tape square was on the top and a rank patch on the front.
Light blue thread from when glint tape was sewn on with a tiny corner of glint tape still attached.
A SGT 1st class and a 2x2 in square of glint tape sewn on.
SPC Patch.
Threads from when a rank was sewn on.
A really intricate specialists patch on a strange backing.
A strange white 1x2 in rectangle of what I assume used to be glint tape is sewn on and evidence a SPC rank was pined and glued on.
Pin holes on the back of the cover and tape on the inside behind the pin holes.
Duct tape residue and a tiny sliver of duct tape.

I realise that isn't 30 but I forgot to write some down and now they are mixed in with my other 50.