New Production SADF Pattern 83 Battle Jacket Color:Ranger Green Wide 'X' shoulder harness &

Wide 'X' shoulder harness & waist straps with padding for load distribution

ribbed cuffs and waist

These meals were built for one purpose: to keep soldiers fighting

Properly adjusted

survivalists on forums report eating 20-year-old MREs with no issues

New Production SADF Pattern 83 Battle Jacket Color:Ranger Green Wide 'X' shoulder harness &The Birth of Pattern 83 The Cold War was not cold for South Africa. While most of Europe was playing an elaborate game of who has the most nukes, the South African Defense Force (SADF) was hard at work fighting the counter insurgency battles of the future. In the process, they developed and refined much of the tactics, weapons, and equipment used today. In the 1960s and 1970s South Africans were involved in three major counterinsurgency wars in Sub