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Strange request!

  • 13-06-2011 12:14pm
    #1
    blue4ever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭


    Its a long story, but I've been asked to see if can identify this 'Irish Soldier'. The person requesting this assures me that he is Irish. To me the photo looks a bit more like a PR shot?

    Any help would be really appreciated.

    Conor


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  • #2
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,650 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    That does not look like even the old Irish uniform, unless there was a time many eons ago (we're talking pre 90s) where Battalion Sergeants Major had braided rank insignia on the jumpers and not red stripes.

    NTM


  • #3
    coach23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭coach23


    .............thats a cardigan not a uniform


  • #4
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Looks like Joe Bloggs.



    I'll get me coat.


  • #5
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,650 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    coach23 wrote: »
    .............thats a cardigan not a uniform

    Unfortunately, there is a black unisex cardigan in the US Army uniform system.

    It's so unpopular, it's almost impossible to find a picture of it.

    NTM


  • #6
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Unfortunately, there is a black unisex cardigan in the US Army uniform system.

    NTM

    For them Smart-Cas days at work I guess!


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  • #7
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    He wouldn't be allowed the Soul patch if he was in the PDF, would he? unless he was "excused shaving" just that wee bit, haha.


  • #8
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    100% certain that he's not a soldier, not to mind Irish.


  • #9
    R.Dub.Fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭R.Dub.Fusilier


    PeterIanStaker wrote: »
    He wouldn't be allowed the Soul patch if he was in the PDF, would he? unless he was "excused shaving" just that wee bit, haha.

    could he be Dutch military?


  • #10
    blue4ever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    Thanks for that everyone. Even my own thoughts was that It wasn't Irish. Anyway, seemingly this fella (claims Irish relations) was in the US military.
    Contacting people on f/book to be friends and then has a yarn about a very sick child with a heart complaint. Then asks for money (donation) to be sent to Malaysia!

    So, the people contacted just wanted to see if anyone by chance knew him here. (Girl he contacted wit the story happened to work for the Dutch police, how unfortunate is that!)

    I think that's boxed off now.

    Thanks,

    C


  • #11
    ex_infantry man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭ex_infantry man


    looks like duece bigalow lol


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  • #12
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Unfortunately, there is a black unisex cardigan in the US Army uniform system.

    I'd love a cardigan as part of my uniform, the smoking jacket & slippers I wear on duty are so British officer WWII :p


  • #13
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    google->images : israeli army woolen jumper
    shows a few possibilities.


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