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No. 0026Clothes and gear

1976

Canadian Forces parka

Running 50 years

Pockets sized for rifle magazines, used for shoveling

A US Army M-65 parka with its hood, a military cold-weather coat from the same era. Not Canadian issue, and not the one in the story. — A US Army M-65 parka with its hood, a military cold-weather coat from the same era. Not Canadian issue, and not the one in the story. Photo: Poema15, CC BY-SA 3.0. The real one is in the original post.

Made in 1976 and issued to a dad starting out in the Canadian Forces Reserves, this parka is his kid's snow-shoveling coat these days. It has pockets all over, most likely sized for 7.62 mm magazines for the C1A1, the licence-built FN FAL the Forces carried back then. If a firearms licence ever comes through, it'll pull duty as a winter shooting jacket too.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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