CD023 Jake Ketchum Riding Drag K&C World of Dickens ” The Marine Raiders battledress

” The Marine Raiders battledress was the M1942 Frog Skin pattern

Wearing dark paint on his face would help break up a warrior’s silhouette making him almost impossible to see in a wooded environment thus creating a very effective technique for concealing his outline

Army during the Sioux Wars

the division moved out

CD023 Jake Ketchum Riding Drag K&C World of Dickens ” The Marine Raiders battledressThis is not, as some might expect, a cross dressing cowboy but a young cowpoke who rides at the rear of the herd, always on the lookout for any strays that might fall behind or wander off the trail. He wears his neckerchief bandanna up over his nose and mouth to avoid the worst of the thick dust stirred up by the hooves of thousands of Texas Longhorns.