Jungle pants

[39mto39g]

I was in this Army surplus store the other day and was looking at there jungle pants, The guy that was behind the counter said he had the pants with a zipper. A zipper? I never knew they came with a zipper.
Two front pockets, two leg pockets, two back pockets, 5 buttons for the fly.
Zipper?

[Jerry D]

zippers would corrode in the jungle humidity I would think?? Must be reproduction jungle fatigues. BTW all my summer and winter weight BDU's had button flys also.

[Bill Farnie]

Never saw a zipper on jungle fatigue pants.

[39mto39g]

I never seen them either but, according to
http://www.skytroopers.org/equipmnt.htm

"TROPICAL TROUSERS:

WEIGHT (size large long) = 1lb 4oz.

The tropical trousers were manufactured of the same tight woven fabric and in the same olive green Army shade OG-107 as the jungle jacket. Like the 1st pattern jungle jacket, the first pattern jungle trousers had exposed buttons on the pocket flaps these were soon changed to familiar concealed button flaps. The tropical trousers had two slash hip pockets, two rear pockets and two leg cargo pockets. Both leg cargo pockets had small reinforced drain holes, the left leg cargo pocket also had a smaller pocket built inside it. The smaller pocket inside the left leg cargo pocket was intended for an individual first aid kit that was never satisfactorily developed. The fly fastening on the tropical trouser was either via a brass zipper or five evenly spaced buttons. The bottoms of the trousers had tunnel draw cords which were used to tie the trouser bottoms over the wearers boots."

I only remember button jungle fatigue pants.

[frisco-kid]

Like everybody else, I only saw the button fly. If the zipper ones were available, you can bet the REMF's had them. Hell, I saw some of them with zipper-front jungle boots. What was up with that?

[splummer]

I never thought much about my jungle fatigues having a zipper or buttons for the last 38 years until now. After careful thought, I guess they were buttons. I brought back one pair of taylored jungle fatiques, but my mother threw eveything out from Nam because of the smell.

Tom-

The boot zippers were add-on's. They were strips of leather with the zipper in the middle and eyes on the sides to match the eyes on the boots. You laced them in running up and down instead of crossing. The zippers were heavy duty like you'd find on a tent or sleeping bag and usually outlasted several sets of laces. I had some and loved them because you could take off both boots, pour water out,change socks,and have em back on and ready to go in the same time it would take to remove one lace up boot. Didn't even have to sit down if you had something to lean on.

I don't recall any zipper flys on jungle pants.