SSG Patrick Howard of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Public Affairs Office took these photos of 5th Group NCOs conducting an exercise on Fort Campbell with Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
The battle drills, mission planning and casualty care is oretty standard fare, but what makes these photos interesting is the Green Berets depicted in the photos chose to go old school by wearing Tigerstripe uniforms.
This image in a articulations harkens back to 5th Group’s Vietnam experience. The full color patches are interesting choice.
That’s too cool. Love the green jungle boots & the bandages used as sweatbands.
Cravats not bandages. Sorry, just being cheeky today.
Spot On ! What a treat. This is Waliking the Dog on high beam.
LARP day? Daddy’s MACV-SOG?
More like LRRP day
Fucking badass is what that is!
Guess because it was a training exercise, it was a “sight-optional” event, notice the one guy running his M4 without an optic and without his rear sight up.
That wouldnt fly with any of my team sergeants…
His sight is up, look closer.
Yup, I see it is now.
Which picture, because one does kind of look like he’s got his rear sight down when I zoom in, but his front sight is blocked. Maybe training to point shoot with a laser?
I’m surprised the command let the guys run around in a very non-standard uniform and that they let these pics see the light of day given the angst that ball caps occasioned just a few years ago.
New CSM, so theyll be good for a year or so till the next one takes over and its 5th infantry group again
Nice!!!
That is so sexy.
Only missing is the cravat Drive on rag.
I guess you haven’t heard that SMA Daily’s new dress greens are so well received that the next step is a retro combat uniform.
Bring it all back;
Khakis
ERDL pattern Jungle Fatigues
Tiger Stripe uniforms for those deep missions
What is old is new again.
+100
Good stuff. Shows how effective the tiger stripes are.
Cool, thought I was the only one with my Vietnam era Tiger Stripes!
Jungle-Tiger BDUs don’t blend outside of a jungle.
Hmmm…non-standard uniforms, wonky patches…maybe a little jab at the SEALS with their new orders to tighten up on discipline?
Super cool either way. Somebody should have had the chopped down M79 though. Or a canteen pouch stuffed with M4 mags
I wonder if they were portraying a partner force for the training. We did OPFOR for an arty BDE this summer and were issued tiger stripes and AKs. Our NG guys looked very similar (less cool guy gear) to the SF guys in the pics. I was amazed at how well the tiger stripes worked. We were infiltrating lines and slapping our unit stickers on the BLUFOR trucks daily.