Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very good condition "Tiger Stripe" camouflage Vietnam War Issue Boonie Cap, as used by the MACV-SOG in the field. These are a lot simpler than later versions, with a burlap support layer, which was a very effective stiffener. Many of these were made in the field with materials in hand, which is why the trim around the edge of this cap is actually cut from a parachute, with a seam still visible. The advisors in Vietnam did not have much in the way of regular supplies, and had to make due with what they got.

A very nice example, though it is quite small at under 7 inches in size. Ready to display!

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States special operations unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War.

Established on 24 January 1964, the unit conducted strategic reconnaissance missions in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), Laos, and Cambodia; carried out the capture of enemy prisoners, rescued downed pilots, conducted rescue operations to retrieve prisoners of war throughout Southeast Asia, and conducted clandestine agent team activities and psychological operations.

The unit participated in most of the significant campaigns of the Vietnam War, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident which precipitated increased American involvement, Operation Steel Tiger, Operation Tiger Hound, the Tet Offensive, Operation Commando Hunt, the Cambodian Campaign, Operation Lam Son 719, and the Easter Offensive. The unit was downsized and renamed Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team 158 on 1 May 1972, to support the transfer of its work to the Strategic Technical Directorate of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam – part of the Vietnamization effort.