Unusual VDV dembel uniform.

Al-muell · 03-01-2004, 03:48 PM

I have purchased the whole uniform, but particulary interesting is the jacket: I have never seen such a remake. It's not about that cable isolation on the collar, metal letters or the badge (i think somethink like this badge was discussed on this forum before). Th thing is that the whole jkacket has been shortened! What's the purpose?

Al-muell · 03-01-2004, 03:50 PM

the pics of the uniform

ericlida · 03-01-2004, 04:07 PM

To look different from regular soldiers (non dembel) and LOOK COOL.

Eric.

Esteban_cool · 03-01-2004, 07:20 PM

There is a button missing and the lapels are longer than normal VDV uniforms... Interesting. BTW, those metal "A" look more like cyrillic "D"s in the photo.

Esteban

Tretov · 03-02-2004, 10:00 AM

I think the short type of uniform was commom among these VDV troops, at least I have been told that here on the forum when talking about a similar jacket.

Al-muell · 03-02-2004, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Esteban_cool

There is a button missing and the lapels are longer than normal VDV uniforms... Interesting. BTW, those metal "A" look more like cyrillic "D"s in the photo.

Esteban

It's just the phoo quality. It looks like "a" in real.

Al-muell · 03-02-2004, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tretov

I think the short type of uniform was commom among these VDV troops, at least I have been told that here on the forum when talking about a similar jacket.

So why it was so popular? make it look more "western"?
And if we are here - I have seen 2 more VDV dembel uniforms, none was shortened, but both had the collar remade in the same style. Was this something especially popular amongst paratroopers?

new world · 03-02-2004, 11:06 AM

Style and modifications were limited to soldier's imagination. With plenty of free time at hands, dembels used to come up with odd things...

William

vikingraider1 · 03-03-2004, 07:36 PM

It was a common practice among Senior Sergeants to remove a button and to shorten the tunic. This only occured among Senior Sergeants, all other ranks kept their uniforms with four buttons. The Komsomol badge is not unusual either, I have photos or Air Defence troops with rocket shaped badges which have been fashioned by themselves. The hook and eye fastener at the bottom of the tunic is interesting, not seen one of them before, nor have I seen the red felt for used (although this material is very common, I have several DEMBEL photo albums which have been covered with this fabric and metal letters stuck on the top). Where they got this fabric from I do not know but it seems to have been widely available (in both red and green) to demobilising troops.

I would say that this is a typcial VDV NCO DEMBEL uniform.

How much did you pay for it?

Al-muell · 03-04-2004, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vikingraider1

It was a common practice among Senior Sergeants to remove a button and to shorten the tunic. This only occured among Senior Sergeants, all other ranks kept their uniforms with four buttons. The Komsomol badge is not unusual either, I have photos or Air Defence troops with rocket shaped badges which have been fashioned by themselves. The hook and eye fastener at the bottom of the tunic is interesting, not seen one of them before, nor have I seen the red felt for used (although this material is very common, I have several DEMBEL photo albums which have been covered with this fabric and metal letters stuck on the top). Where they got this fabric from I do not know but it seems to have been widely available (in both red and green) to demobilising troops.

I would say that this is a typcial VDV NCO DEMBEL uniform.

How much did you pay for it?

So it's rather typical than unusual? :)
I gave 99pln, that's about 25$. For me it's a good, but reather high price.
About this fabric - I remember from "good old times" that in most of the schools message boards were covered with such material (the red one), so perhaps it was common in the USSR as well.
I am not sure if this badge was made by the soldier himself - there was a thread about similar badge here and also I have seen one for sale saeparately (without komsomolpin in center). Weren't they something like the modern russian dembel badges?

03-01-2004, 03:48 PM	#1
Al-muell Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Wrocław, Poland Posts: 1,828	Unusual VDV dembel uniform. I have purchased the whole uniform, but particulary interesting is the jacket: I have never seen such a remake. It's not about that cable isolation on the collar, metal letters or the badge (i think somethink like this badge was discussed on this forum before). Th thing is that the whole jkacket has been shortened! What's the purpose?

03-01-2004, 07:20 PM	#4
Esteban_cool Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Santiago, Chile Age: 36 Posts: 1,103	There is a button missing and the lapels are longer than normal VDV uniforms... Interesting. BTW, those metal "A" look more like cyrillic "D"s in the photo. Esteban __________________ There's nothing in the streets Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye And the parting on the left Are now parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight The Who, Won't get fooled again

03-03-2004, 07:36 PM	#9
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	It was a common practice among Senior Sergeants to remove a button and to shorten the tunic. This only occured among Senior Sergeants, all other ranks kept their uniforms with four buttons. The Komsomol badge is not unusual either, I have photos or Air Defence troops with rocket shaped badges which have been fashioned by themselves. The hook and eye fastener at the bottom of the tunic is interesting, not seen one of them before, nor have I seen the red felt for used (although this material is very common, I have several DEMBEL photo albums which have been covered with this fabric and metal letters stuck on the top). Where they got this fabric from I do not know but it seems to have been widely available (in both red and green) to demobilising troops. I would say that this is a typcial VDV NCO DEMBEL uniform. How much did you pay for it? __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

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ericlida Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Age: 71 Posts: 761	To look different from regular soldiers (non dembel) and LOOK COOL. Eric.

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