Vietnam Era Silk Blood Chit Construction_Leather and the Pistola™ tethered gun

and the Pistola™ tethered gun pocket system

Leather-welted seams

Buckle throat latch

Hand-selected antiqued sheepskin pelts — unique grain and shading per jacket

Vietnam Era Silk Blood Chit Construction_Leather and the Pistola™ tethered gunThe Vietnam Era blood chit was issued to USAF, USN, and USMC aircrew flying over Southeast Asia the longest running blood chit program in American military history, spanning from the early 1960s through 1975. The Vietnam blood chit contains survival text in 12 languages covering the complex linguistic landscape of the theater: Vietnamese (northern and southern dialects), Khmer, Lao, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and others reflecting the