Kiwi Peace Keeping Items

Hi all, heres some of the Peace Keeping Items that I have in my collection thus far

Timor Deployment. 1RNZIR Major.



Brassard Detail:



Flexi fit cap detail.(Well salty...)





Boonie:



Boonie detail: Has a bright red band built into it...



DPM Pants & Stable Belt:



Blue Role kit:















Multi National Force. RNZAF Rotary Wing, Sinai 1986

















UNPROFOR:



Cheers!

Flippin' eck Delta, that is some UN/Peacekeepers collection...love it Mate.

I find in particularly interesting that the NZ forces used the Brit UN Blue CBA vest,I would have assumed there would have a local version in place,so that's cool as Learned something new again

Cheers mate! I have more UN/Peace Keeper stuff, but it's packed away.

The CBA Vest came to me with the Timor stuff. I am not aware of a Kiwi made vest, so I think that Kiwi's grabbed or were issued with whatever they could get.

It seems to be a time honored tradition with Kiwi soldiers, to "Acquire" or trade kit, which they don't seem to have ...Not so much Nicking kit, but "Borrowing" it...

I had a WWII Kiwi LRDG veteran tell me chuckling to himself, (and I quote verbatim) "The only people more adept at borrowing stuff that we needed than the Wogs, was us kiwis!"

He told me how they actually uplifted whole tents (and I mean several large tents...) from British base camps and drove out the front gate with them in the backs of their trucks before anybody noticed what they were up to!

A friend of my dads who served in Vietnam, told me similar tales of "Borrowing" kit off the Aussies and Yanks when they were not looking... Lol

Delta 66 wrote:Cheers mate! I have more UN/Peace Keeper stuff, but it's packed away.

The CBA Vest came to me with the Timor stuff. I am not aware of a Kiwi made vest, so I think that Kiwi's grabbed or were issued with whatever they could get.

It seems to be a time honored tradition with Kiwi soldiers, to "Acquire" or trade kit, which they don't seem to have ...Not so much Nicking kit, but "Borrowing" it...

I had a WWII Kiwi LRDG veteran tell me chuckling to himself, (and I quote verbatim) "The only people more adept at borrowing stuff that we needed than the Wogs, was us kiwis!"

He told me how they actually uplifted whole tents (and I mean several large tents...) from British base camps and drove out the front gate with them in the backs of their trucks before anybody noticed what they were up to!

A friend of my dads who served in Vietnam, told me similar tales of "Borrowing" kit off the Aussies and Yanks when they were not looking... Lol

No worries Mate, it's always great to see large collections like this.When you did the rest out I'd be keen to see the rest!!

Re: The CBA source makes sense, and love the Kiwi style of accruing kit, that show's real initiative

we were not issued the UN CBA for East Timor, not the soldiers doing the hard yards anyway lol maybe the white tile warriors were ....

Yeah, roger that

Makes for some diverse & interesting load outs as well

2/1kiwi wrote:we were not issued the UN CBA for East Timor, not the soldiers doing the hard yards anyway lol maybe the white tile warriors were ....

Cheers for that, good to know.

The UNPROFOR & UN Bosnia Patch came with this uniform as well. Do you know if they were worn by Kiwi's during that deployment perhaps?

Maybe He just "Aquired" it... LoL

Bosnia was a bit before my time lol, Onward would know hes a "old dig"

heres some of my stuff from my 4 deployments to Timor, 2 with the UN, 2 with ISF.

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Nice bring backs mate

Nice the suspenders are pre Timor but possibly worn Batt 1 were the first guys issued Dpm webbing and they pretty anal about uniformity.

Dpms are good the colour are well washed out from the sun and the washing machines in the rear for those who used them

UN hat is a maybe more likely issue cheap general issue berets only used on parades rear area wear.

The j hat is from 2/1st trip to Aussie in 96 issued only for the deployment as the CO had a flash one and we got these bad boys.

CBA vest is Brit cover our guys in Bos had better Bristol armour then the Brits used again for Timor

Dan where did you get the Batt2 plauque with the newer B coy badge have you got the reunion coin?

Bro the bravo coy sign is a coin that budgie sent me as i missed the reunion cause i was back in timor

Nice down for a month at SAW need anything from up here.

Lol wot u got... i got nothing at the moment just some maps etc

Heaps i was gonna bring a few bits and pieces down maybe a waste of time after this

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Yea i saw this lol. Tad wont be issued for a while we low on priority. Recruits have the new vest and will be getting the new packs soon. They will also get the uniforms while they are here ncos in dpm.

Nice im sure that is how it will work lol

How the heck did u manage to get all that UN kit I have a helmet cover and a Patch the patch iv sewen onto my dutch DPM top for Airsoft. I also managed to get an old Kevlar helmet and the cover fits niceley .