Mystery Jacket

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Four letters : OCIE

The uniform regs in the services don't get updated every time some piece of TA-50 (deuce gear to our local crayon eaters) or John Wayne gear gets changed.

The whole "ECWCS" ensemble (soft shell,  pants,  puffy jacket,  etc) isn't in anybody's uniform manual because those items are considered "organizational clothing and issued equipment" not "uniforms"

It's a weird distinction made weirder by the face that we just don't have "issued gear" like the services do.  So "seemingly non- uniform" (not found in the manuals) "uniform" items like this pop up on ebay all the time (and like this,  wind up in pictures), and everybody loses their mind because it's not found.