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You're lucky that woman didn't cry "rape" and spray you with Mace.
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You're lucky that woman didn't cry "rape" and spray you with Mace.
Hi Edward. Well, sorta but not exactly. Career Naval and USMC Aviators usually manage to acquire several issued flight jackets along the way. They often keep one as a uniform jacket upon which their current patches and insignia are attached. Others become "trophy repositories” where patches from their many prior cruises and assignments are attached. You may be thinking of the civilian jackets that are often made in foreign countries and are patched or embroidered to memorialize a specific assignment.
Sometime last winter I was in the grocery store check out line behind a middle-aged woman who was wearing her dad's old "trophy" or "cruise" G-1. It was covered from top to bottom with squadron and cruise patches from the late fifties through the early seventies. Happily, she was aware of the value of the jacket (both sentimental and actual) and she promised me that she would always care for it as if it were one of her children.
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You're lucky that woman didn't cry "rape" and spray you with Mace.
Hi
Anyone out there got a top gun movie heroes jacket, still wearing it .Its 25 years since the film was made. Whats it like, I never actually saw one of them back in the eighties , had cheaper version of the g1 not the right patches on it.
Averex made them now made by the Cockpit,got this urge to get one. Surely their apart of flying jacket history.
For sure on both points.But he also had a patched-up G-1 in the movie. That looks like a promo shot...not that it matters.In the above picture you can guess hand warmers behind the pockets If true, hand warmers and "good replica" don't go well together. :eusa_doh:
he also had a patched-up G-1 in the movie. That looks like a promo shot...not that it matters.