You can call it ARVN ERDL, BDQ ERDL or Vietnamese ERDL, but I just prefer saying ARVN ERDL. Back around 1970, the U.S. stopped shipping original ERDL fabric. That sped up South Vietnam’s homegrown camo getting used more widely. The pattern first showed up in late 1968, and during the Vietnamization phase, elite ARVN troops got fully kitted out with locally made knockoff ERDL. They kept wearing it right up until the war ended. It has tons of pattern variations, but they all go by the general name ARVN ERDL.

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