B. Willbnks
Member
What are the ingredients/chemicals involved in getting the goatskin hide during the process for a jacket? My reason is... I have a G-1 that has a real bad odor, and there seems to be nothing to remove it. My last thought was the shipping carrier may have spilled hydraulic fluid on the shipping package, as that seems to be the type of odor I remember when I was air crew in the Navy. However, after some investigating, that may not be the case. Different tanners may have many different type of chemicals in their tanning process.
This jacket has a different purpose than one being issued for Navy aviation air crew. Wearing it in public today with this odor would get some "not so pleasant looks" from people.
On-board ships such as aircraft carriers, we didn't care too much about what odor, or the condition it was in, just so we had something to wear to keep warm on the flight deck and in flight..
If you were lucky to have met a girl off base and she liked the leather jacket, you gave it to her and you ask the Navy to issue you another one. That is how I ended up with two in my first two years in the Navy.
This jacket has a different purpose than one being issued for Navy aviation air crew. Wearing it in public today with this odor would get some "not so pleasant looks" from people.
On-board ships such as aircraft carriers, we didn't care too much about what odor, or the condition it was in, just so we had something to wear to keep warm on the flight deck and in flight..
If you were lucky to have met a girl off base and she liked the leather jacket, you gave it to her and you ask the Navy to issue you another one. That is how I ended up with two in my first two years in the Navy.