Desert Uniforms Patches And Insignia Of The Us Armed Forces

Download or read book Desert Uniforms, Patches, and Insignia of the Us Armed Forces written by Kevin M. Born and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a unique perspective to this previously unexplored topic of desert combat uniforms and patches with the authors' extensive knowledge of military history combined with a total of over 50 years of military experience. In this extraordinary comprehensive reference book, they provide a detailed picture of desert uniforms, patches, and insignia worn by the US Armed Forces in combat from Desert Storm, through Somalia and in the more recent hard fought campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. The sum of the extensive information gathered here on Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard units that wore the desert uniform is not available anywhere else. Calling upon original source documents and extensive public and private collections, the authors have painstakingly assembled detailed research that will serve veterans, historians, collectors, and reenactors for years to come as the definitive reference on this topic.