US Army ERDL Camouflage Jacket

59.-

11.05.2026

8706, Meilen

Zu verkaufen ist eine originales "Rapid Deployment Force" Camouflage Jacket aus den 70ern oder ganz frühen 80ern der US Army Special Operations: Unifom, Hot Weather ERDL in brown dominant camouflage ripstop, Grösse Medium Regular. 100% Baumwolle und in fast neuer ausgezeichneter Verfassung. Dieses spezielle ERDL Muster wurde nur kurz von den 70er bis Anfang der 80er vorallem bei Spezialeinheiten der Marines oder der US Army Special Operations verwendet. Heute extrem rar. Gekauft in den USA vor über fünf unddreissig Jahren.

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The U.S. Military's "Rapid Deployment Force", or "RDF". The RDF was created in 1980 under President Carter to provide a quick and immediately deployable American military response to trouble spots. The straight pocket ERDL uniform became known as the "RDF Fatigues", even though their existence predates the actual formation of the RDF. Throughout the 1970's, the vast majority of the U.S. Military remained in solid OG-107 or OG-507 combat fatigues. Certain units, such as the Special Forces, SEALS, Marines, the Rangers, the 82nd Airborne and select other units who were considered rapidly deployable were issued ripstop ERDL uniforms in both green and brown dominant patterns. This often overlooked uniform was a mainstay for elite units and acted as a bridge between the Vietnam jungle fatigues and the Battle Dress Uniform.

ERDL Brown Dominant Uniform Jacket, Hot Weather Camouflage, an early Woodland pattern from the seventies to the early eighties. Size Medium Regular. This uniform jacket is brown dominant, vintage issue and is slightly used. This is an excellent example of a very rare piece of military history.

Some more history:
Once the Vietnam war ended, the original ERDL uniforms saw only scattered usage, primarily by the US Marine Corps and US airborne/special operations community. Beginning in 1979, however, the DOD again reconsidered camouflage uniforms for issue to military personnel, and designed the Hot Weather Uniform (in a slightly varied cut from the Vietnam era jungle uniform) utilizing surplus stocks of green and brown dominant ERDL camouflage. Subsequent textile production for this uniform saw a distinctive color change from the Vietnam era ERDL patterns, creating what has come to be known among some historians as "transitional ERDL" or "ERDL 2nd generation." Developers at the US Army's Natick Laboratories referred to variations of this pattern as NLABS-1. This pattern features mid-brown & grass green organic shapes with black "branches" on an light olive green background, although surviving samples illustrate that several color-dye variations were produced. This 2nd Generation ERDL uniform was primarily distributed to members of the Rapid Deployment Force and the USMC (along with some special operations personnel), but was officially only in production from 1979 to 1981.