Designed to be loose fitting, it was typically worn over a and was tucked into the . Though the lighter and quicker drying had been developed in 1962, three years prior to the introduction of U.S ground troops in Vietnam, the utility shirt and trousers were still worn by infantrymen early in the war.
1. Military Specification MIL-S-3001C. (17 October 1958)
The Seventh Army was a United States army created during that evolved into the (USAREUR) during the 1950s and 1960s. It served in North Africa and Italy in the and France and Germany in the between 1942 and 1945.
