by Mark Conrad
FUERZA FEMININA" Fig. 1. Enlisted woman in tan shirt, green-brown skirt, black shoes, insignia like men's red/yellow military zone tab, green-brown side cap. Fig. 2. Enlisted woman in olive drab trousers, black [faded to grey] T-shirt with full colour FU.FEM. badge [see fig.8.] olive drab hat, M-16 rifle, note beads around neck. Fig. 3. Olive drab fatigues, subdued or full colour F.F.D.D. patch, black belt, women's fatigues usually button up right over left. Fig. 4. Officer in olive drab jungle fatigues, olive drab beret with silver rank bars over FU.FEM. unit badge, full colour F.F.D.D. badge on left sleeve, FU.FEM. badge on right, yellow collar insignia and shoulder rank bars, green shoulder cord. Fig. 5. Officer in tan shirt with gold metal insignia, silver rank on brown slip-on, dark brown beret with silver rank bar and coloured FU.FEM badge, teal blue scarf, note earring. Fig. 6. Officer in tan shirt and greenish chocolate brown skirt and hat [an enlisted persons hat in this style was worn in dark green with gold badge and yellow chin strap], hat has gold cord and visor edge, black piping on fold up sides. Badges and insignia like men's but FU.FEM. patch on -right sleeve with red/yellow tab, officers side cap is greenish-brown with gold piping and silver rank. Fig. 7. Unit badge: white background, black lettering and outline, natural colour archeress in purple robe with red stripe, brown mountains, yellow rays, green from foot of mountains to the white scoll with black "VIDA". To be continued
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