The versatile shemagh!!

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nice vid.
have a couple of those for me too.
 
I have a OD green/black and a Coyote/desert tan one . I think the od one is on my avatar .
When the British SAS unit Bravo 2 zero tried to walk from Iraq to Syria to escape capture all they had for cold weather was their shemaghas . Only one made it , check out the story its a good read .
 
Good old fashioned ladies headscarves do the same thing for those of us who don't want to wear drab. I have too many:oops:
 
Pretty interesting video. I never thought a rag could be so versatile! Seriously, prepping is all about being flexible and creative with any resources available, and this video is a perfect example.
 
To me, it seems like a fashion accessory that has some uses. Issued to US troops who were stationed in the desert. Kind of weird. After WWII, except maybe bomber jackets, issue uniforms didn't really make it into mainstream fashion, in the US. I don't remember my Grandpa ever wearing anything related to the war. After the Viet Nam war, it was pretty common in the seventies and eighties to see guys wearing Field jackets, and jungle boots, and even fatigues. Actual surplus uniform items. I have to say, and just an observation and my own experience, most guys that I have seen who wear surplus uniform items on a day to day basis, and you talk to them for a bit, you find out they never served. Had a neighbor who flew a giant Marine Corp flag, stickers all over his truck, ALWAYS in camo, found out he had been booted two weeks into boot camp for failure to adapt. Same with a friends dad, always in fatigues, talked about Nam and told horror stories, he never even served a day. An older guy I worked with made wild claims about Viet Nam, said he was on the roof of the embassy when the "last choppers flew out" found his drivers license one day when he dropped it, he would have been 15 in 1974. Always in fatigues, always a high and tight haircut, blaming his drinking and drug use on PTSD, military tattoos- never served.

I know the Shemagh isn't quite the same as wearing a uniform item, but to me it is still too close, like I want people to think I served in a different branch, or was stationed somewhere I wasn't. Any old square of cloth will serve the same function, without possibly making people think I did foot patrols in Afghanistan, or rolled convoys in Iraq.

Funny thing is, I WAS forward deployed to the Gulf during the first war. Desert Shield, Southern Watch, 4 deployments... still wouldn't feel right to me. It would be like seeing an Army guy wearing a Dress Blues top lol. Just weird.
 
I always thought it was just an Arab fashion accesory. (The hell with being politically correct) :)
Yeah. I saw them all over Afghanistan, other parts of the ME and parts of North Africa. Just didn't know what they were called, and didn't care. Mostly they just looked like filthy blankets.
 

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