M1 Carbine Rear Eschelon Pack

[turkeydoc]

I recall buying a sealed pack dated 1966 (?) which held 4 magazines, an oiler, yellow rifle grease and a cleaning thong. I took pictures and .... opened it. I think I paid $100 on Ebay about 10 years ago and haven't seen one since. I also haven't found any references for them. Any information? How where they issued? Has anyone else seen them?

[Tuna]

I would hazard a guess that those were made up for use in Viet Nam. Bet that's where most of them went to.

[Johnny in Texas]

They may have been pulled from NRA sales carbines in the 50's-60's they were sold less magazines. What you have sounds like a rifle issue kit. Look in War Baby I think I saw something like that there. It is by Larry Ruth

[Tuna]

Johnny, The kits are dated 1966. I don't think they would have been available for the NRA/DCM program. The carbine was by that time already a secondary issue weapon replaced by the M16A1. But we were sending many thousands of carbines overseas.

[Johnny in Texas]

Your probably correct sounds like Vietnam stuff do you have a picture of the package?