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CURRENT SPEC - 09JUN20 (including long lengths into the system)

It is a Pops Leather upgrade/conversion. Pops Leather is located in Turkey and has a website. These conversions are rather common. They do represent a subset of the A-2 jacket upgrades, as to the newer blouson style, (mostly during the Northern Watch years.)

DAKOTA OUTERWEAR COMPANY RN 106532 COLD WEATHER WORK APPAREL, POLYESTER LONG UNDERWEAR, NYLON LAMINATED RAIN WEAR It is authentic, as are all A-2 jackets which are all GSA/FSS Commercial off the shelf items. Dakota has supplied a-2 jackets in past and has used US and German made...

Re: USAF Flight Suit / Assembled in Mexico with U.S. Compone It is a COTS (Complete off the shelf) GSA item. The US government has been moving towards this for years. If it meets the need, and is available for sale, to the public, it may be purchased. The Berry admendment applies to...

Well, that went well. I gotta go, my Skeeter alarm is ringing. It was a short stay, Merry Christmas.

http://www.dlis.dla.mil/webflis/pub/pub_search.aspx Enter: 8415-01-565-2028 Jacket, Cold Weather Large, Short It'll give the NIIN assignment date, demil code, characteristics, cage and government talk, for no mil spec.

Here are some links: http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fu ... C1AF3CBA4F http://earmarks.omb.gov/earmarks-public ... 94266.html https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode ... e&_cview=0 https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... e&_cview=1 https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ...

Start with this: assist.daps.dla.mil/ Site goes up and down. It lists FSC, ended and current specs, Use Assist Quick Search, to find NSN/NIIN.

Excelled Leather has recieved DOD contracts, for Fed Supply Class 8415, (Clothing, Special Purpose) since 2000. They did have contracts from that year through to FY 2007. Excelled did not recieve contracts for Fiscal Years of 2003,2005 and 2008 during this period, as a matter of record.

It is a early SDU strobelight/long blue IR shield pocket. A VN era flight systems command field test, if I recall it properly. Check out the SEA leather backed suit/jacket patches, if you didn't see them the last time around.

Pharr Brand Apparel won US Navy Jacket G-1 contracts from FY 2003 to 2006. Avirex Ltd Inc, recieved its last A-2 contract award in FY 2003. Taylor's Leatherwear supplies the current style A-2, USCG/HS type, G-1.

All the years I saw Mr. Boyington at the Reno Air Races, he either wore khakis or a blue leisure shirt/khaki combo. He usually was next to "The Jap who shot him down", as we refered to it, in the day. It was strained at times, between the two. I witnessed a heated argument one time about the...

The 1995 - 9 page A-2 spec, refers to "garment grade goatskin" to be used in production. It is described as a commerical specification, for an A-2 jacket. I found no mention made to any flame retardent coatings. The garment grade leather is to be: Brown, USAF shade 1621. The finished...

The CWU series goes from 1 to 83, with some blank or number gaps. It was created in the Mid Nineteen Sixties and represented then newly created flight or cold weather clothing. It includes flightsuits, Security Police jackets, survival and immersion clothing, long underwear and mid layer...

K= Very light zone L = Light zone M= Intermediate Zone N= Heavy or Cold Zone MA-1 - M - Intermediate Zone, A - Aircraft (fixed wing, item carried or used to complete its required mission) 1 - 1st type. (1950's designator system) CWU= Clothing, Warmth, Unit (designator for...