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Any of you current or former service guys recall..

drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
What that stuff is called that you use to blacked your pin on rank?
It's not the same as edge dressing is it?


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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the Marine Corps, we used em-nu.
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  • ItGoBangItGoBang Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Black Magic Marker.....

    It will hurt you, More than it will hurt me..

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  • maggiethecatmaggiethecat Member Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    never ever ever use magic marker. it leaves the item with a gloss coat. gloss=reflective=dead. em-nu is a matte black brush on paint in tiny jars.

    I usually used flat blck model spray paint, only ofter sanding the old stuff off first

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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    yep, em-nu or whatever it is is the commercial offering, but I sand mine and spray paint them flat black, lasts a long time. Well I use to, now I just throw them out and buy new ones. I'm not a cheap o' anymore.[;)]

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  • FrOgFrOg Member Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can't you just buy them subdued? I have a whole buch that came black.

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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dano: I believe drobs is referring to the metal collar rank insignia, not the sew-on sleeve type.
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  • kissgoodnightkissgoodnight Member Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The points and edges rub and the brass begins to show through so you have to touch them up every now and again.
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    Drobs,

    I believe it is called "Emnu". If you need some, send me an email if you want me to pick some up for you at the Military Clothing Sales store, and I'll get it out to you ASAP.

    NSDQ!

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  • 101AIRBORNE101AIRBORNE Member Posts: 1,252 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have no idea. We tore rank and name off the fatigues while in Vietnam.
    I believe DWS likely did the same. As a grunt squad leader-buck sergeant-no name nor ID except the 101ST. patch. Believe we were the only Division that allowed non blacked out Division patches. Been a while. 101
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Airborne: The Marine Corps never issued name or unit patches, either in the States or Vietnam; we stenciled our initials and last name on the back of our jungle utility blouses before going in-country, and wore the usual metal rank insignia on the collars (or cover, if we lost one). However, it was common for permanent-duty 3rdMarDiv Marines on Okinawa to get sew-on name and US MARINES tags made-up off base, but those of us coming over on BLTs were not there long enough to adopt that salty "Okinawa hand" look.

    Speaking of Okinawa, I remember running into a few of you airborne types in Machinado. You fight dirty.
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  • 0311marine0311marine Member Posts: 3,233
    edited November -1
    we mark our cammie tops on the collar w/ a black name stamp,and on the inside of our cover.I dont like using emnu on my chevrons because emnu chips off.i just use plain flat black spray paint.edge dressing is put on the sides of your soles

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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys! It came up in a conversation I was having with some one & for the life of me neither one of us could remember what it was called.

    Regards,
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