[struwwelpeter]

This stuff better be TA-50 issue, I'm sick of buying clothes I only wear two days a month.

While we're on the subject - whose idea was it to put a zipper on the ACU top, but only buttons on the pants? And how tactical is all that noisy velcro?

[ASOC]

I can sew a button back on in the field, a broken zipper is a trip to the tailor. The TA 50 wool shirts and field pants were rugged as wore like iron.

FWIW Zipper = fastner, interlocking, slide (plus size in inches)
they *do* have a NSN. Who knew?

[Capt_Hank]

That(TA-50)gear, was the first bit of gear I turned in, when I got my separation papers. Free from going to the field in Germany. The "Mickey Mouse" boots..... good grief.