Vietnam tiger stripe combat vests: three field-made examples

Vietnam tiger stripe combat vests, examined: Ian McCollum and tiger stripe author Owen Thornton go through three field-made ammunition-carrying vests that no quartermaster ever issued — a heavy tiger stripe rig lined with canvas cut from a 1968 US mail bag, a lightweight tiger stripe vest with 20-round magazine and zippered map pockets, and an earlier Air Force survival vest cut from a bolt of cloth and built to open from the bottom.