BELBAT VI mannequin

Hello

belgian army sergeant of the "4e bataillon logistique" during the U.N. mission BELBAT VI in Eastern Slavonia (Croatia) march-aug 1994









https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j6W9AUhbc4

Salutations

Nice mannequin!   Here is a rather poor quality photograph that I took of one of the Belgian gate guards at Beli Manastir, Croatia in the fall of 1993; I just wish I had had digital back then!

Here is an image of a Belgian Sergeant-Major that I was taking a UN mine awareness course with in Zagreb.

Great photos Ed - is the helmet air force, or was it painted UN blue?

Raoul was in the Army, so I am not sure where he got the helmet from.

It looks like UN blue painted over an army M51 shell with early roughly textured surface.

Very nice display and great follow up pictures!

edstorey wrote:Here is an image of a Belgian Sergeant-Major that I was taking a UN mine awareness course with in Zagreb.

That must have been a short course. "Be aware there are mines everywhere and if you trigger one you'll regret it"

Steve

Wolverine wrote:It looks like UN blue painted over an army M51 shell with early roughly textured surface.

Interesting. I always thought the blue Belgian helmets were Air Force.

They are, but there are two shades of blue - the air force helmets, which are very common, are sort of a robin's egg blue. The UN overpainted helmets are the darker traditional UN blue.

And then to confuse things further, the earlier vintage air force helmets and liners (1950s-60s) are closer to slate grey.