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Item Number: 1712museum2930 (Record 382361)
Date:
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Collection:
Timothy P. Vail Collection (Americal Division Veterans Association)
Media Type:
Museum Object (.jpg)
Description:
Timothy Vail's U.S. Army dress uniform from 1970, consisting of jacket, pants, two tan dress shirts and two black ties. The jacket is decorated with the Combat Infantry badge lapel pin and blue braided rope indicating an Infantry MOS. The right shoulder patch signifies the previous assigned unit (the 198th Light Infantry Brigade) and the left shouldr patch and epaulette pins are for the stateside armor unit to which Vail was assisnged (6th Battalion, 32nd Armor Brigade). The patches on both sleeves indicate Specialist 4th Class rank. Vail's jacket also has the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal insignia. The blue badge above Vail's name tag is a unit citation, though he is unsure of what it is for.
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Museum Object,  No Date, Timothy P. Vail Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 19 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1712museum2930>.
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