Our good friend and volunteer "Doc" died suddenly on August 5th. His fiance arrived this evening to arrange for the final shipment of her household goods, and brought Doc's Fedayeen helmet to give us. Every now and then, he'd good naturedly taunt me with pictures of it. Upon his death, the manager of his estate set it aside to be sold, but was unsuccessful. I didn't ask the price, but Beth purchased it, because she knew Doc would've wanted me to have it. Of course, I'm excited to have it, but I'd much rather still have Doc ribbing me about it. We all shed more than a few tears. Doc originally started his military career as a Navy Corpsman (hence his nickname) and eventually switched to the Air Force Reserves (Security Forces), retiring last year as a Master Sergeant. He'd done TEN deployments during the GWOT.  He had a photo on his phone of a tunnel in Iraq with these helmets laying around, so I might ask for a copy of that somewhere down the road.  As is common, the ziggy-zaggy has been popped off.

Liner is missing as well, but the good news is even a regular Iraqi army liner of the removable type will fit though incorrect, its better than none. There was someone several years back making the rubber badges for these, not sure if they are still available or not.    Scott

I've got a couple M90 helmets with decent liners, but I'm going to leave it as he brought it home...ditto for the ziggy-zaggy.  When I personally owned one of these helmets circa 2004, it was missing the badge and the guys making the repops were doing a brisk business in them, but I haven't seen those in years.

 

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