CollectinSteve wrote:
Did all of the trousers have the old 8 pocket style, or were some made in the 6 pocket style?
Steve
I forgot to answer this. There are no models of eight pockets in trouser.
There are 3 models of this uniform I know (but you know, as I said in pm, that never will say this priest is not my father when I talk of uniforms)
There is one early pattern as shown in photos which has 2 pockets in side thigs and two smaller ones in side ankles. NO pockets in buttom (ass), sorry for my English, sometimes I think cannot explain things like I would like.
Second pattern has 2 pockets in side thigs and loses the ankle ones´, but instead of that appear two pockets in buttom (ass).
3rd pattern is just the same than the 2nd model, but has no embroided epaulettes.
This pattern is actually more difficult to find that dark patterns because although Plan META in 1986 changed all uniformity rules in Spain at least in Legion we continued using dark camos and woodland camos. The question was that we used them until the stock allowed that.
At that moment in Tercio, more in African ones we lived our own, with strictely Legion rules but soft for combat uniformity, ay mid 90´s you could see people in combat exercises with desert chocochip (not many in African Tercio), dark or woodland amoeba and NATO patterns. I can say that even other units uniformities (I remember marine and ezapac patterns, because there were people that having joined before in other units, joined the Legion after that, and all was usefull for combat exercises).
When Legion Brigade formed, based on Fuerteventura 3rd Tercio (which came fron Canary Islands to Almería) many artillery, Logistic, etc...were forced to become legionnaires, so many officers with not Legion ideas stayed here. The new way of thinkinf made that image had to be performed, so old patterns were out of use. Out of reglamentary. But.... like woodland amoeba looked like similar to NATO pattern, was still in use for sometime, today you can even ocasionally see them when captain of Company allows in combat exercises.
Thats way this uniform has been in more use time than others, so many of them have been used until destruction and are so worth by legionnaires who think they still smell like old Tercio way of living.
Conclusion: More difficult to get one of this even than a dark (rocoso) pattern.
Cheers Steven.
PD: There are many things more, but I have already talked so much and still havený learnt to resume
The unfortunate thing is it is stuck in Spain at a friend's house (along with 40kg of other Spanish gear). Hopefully I'll have it in my hands within 2 months.
Do not worry about your English descriptions. You capture the meaning very well.
Of course I am quite happy to see your list of sale/trade, even though I have nothing to trade that you want.
