by michelwijnand Sat Aug 05, 2017 3:12 pm
Well strangely no KM guys I asked have ever seen anything similar to this used throughout their cold war service, so I'm leaning more towards it being sourced by a single guy (if it was Dutch KM used at all).
At the time the foreign stuff that was regularly issued was just some US fieldgear, leftovers from just after WW2, used up until Dutch made stuff replaced it, though some pieced can be seen in use at least into the 80's.
At some point when the webbing (seen in the other thread) inspired by British p58 webbing started to be used, more use of British fieldgear bits have been seen (some guys had British holsters and rainsuits apparently, by no means I'd call this standard procedure though).
And when the DPM uniforms started to be used there were also some British made things to supplement the Dutch made stuff (winter hats, gloves, windproof parka's).
Then in the early 90's there was an influx of US made gear again.
That's why I don't think it's actual MoD purchased French stuff.