Talked to a fella today at the store. I asked where he had this done, he said the first one was done in Vietnam. But his wife recreated it for him. She did all the work herself.  Pretty impressive.  Had dragons down the sleeves, should had taken pics of it all. Thanked him for his service and said to tell his wife she did an awesome job.

With the crossed rifles its supposed to be a US Marine Corps sergeant patch, don't recognize the era exactly but its relatively modern from the synthetic embroidery gleaming in the light. 

A nice quality bar and interesting combo to an infantry officer (accompanying CIB).    

This showed up today in a group buy.  At first I thought it was 1930's US Army, but then thought it might be USMC, possibly theater-made.  Thoughts and opinions?   

It looks interesting. I’ll need to check it out when I get a chance.  Just to be clear about something. While I don’t have mechanical skills, I do in fact know what a carburetor is. It’s all the specifics about all the different types of Jeep carburetors that you folks know that I find over my head. But it is still fascinating to follow your conversation. mikie  

Same here! Great piece!

Never heard of this before! Thanks for sharing. 

Yes, it is very unfortunate that someone could not leave it alone!!!  Thank you for the help.  

The Chicago Beer Riots Medal of 1855 In 1854 the anti-immigrant American Party commonly called the “Know Nothings” won the Chicago elections putting Dr. Levi Boone in the mayor's office. Boone promptly fired all city employees who were not American born which hit the police hard since a large number of policemen were Irish born. Next he antagonized the Germans by outlawing beer drinking on Sundays and drastically raising the license fees of beer drinking establishments. The Germans felt that their rights were violated and ignored the the laws. The police then arrested some of the violaters and the Germans then decided to liberate the prisoners. Police and National Guard units with artillery were called up while the Germans marched in the streets with military precision. Eventually things settled down after some street skirmishes resulting in one fatality and several serious injuries. The Chicago Tribune called for a public subscription to pay for medals for a number of heroic policemen for their actions during the riot. There is no known list of medal recipients names but the Tribune coverage of the riot mentions the following names; Marshal Knights (City Marshal?) Police Capt. Niebels, Lieut. Cutler Officers: Chubb, Grey, Hunt (lost an arm), Norwood, Noyes, Geo. Paine, Tenbrook (head clubbed), Weston, William White. Civilians who aided police: Jeremiah Coultright, Allan Pinkerton. It is not known if any of the above names recieved medals. I do know that there are medals with names not included on this list.   The medal looks like it was made by a local jeweler from an old pocket watch case with two gold halves joined together creating a hollow medal. The medal is 39.9 mm in diameter, weighs 15.46 grams with a reeded edge. Both obverse and reverse are engraved in beautiful long hand as follows “PRESENTED TO WM. H. KEMP BY THE CITIZENS OF CHICAGO IN GREATFUL APPRECIATION OF HIS GALLANT CONDUCT AS A POLICE OFFICER IN THE RIOT OF THE 21 DAY OF APRIL 1855”.   The medals is suspended on a narrow black neck ribbon 21.5 inches long with a small cameo slide. It is not known if this ribbon originally came with the medal.

With that gun a 3 or 5 mag pouch.  20 round pouch would probably be preferred.  The M1's don't take drums,  so that would be out.