MUSKETT44,

Quote from your post:

"I thought you folks might like to see a few pictures of an early S&W Model 60 that ‘served’ in Viet Nam (VN) in most of 1967 and part of 1968. The gentleman who owns it was kind enough to let me take these pictures and make ‘sanitized’ scanned images of the paperwork he had to obtain to bring it back to the States when he departed (he used the term DEROS’d) VN."

DEROS is an acronym for Date of Expected Rotation from Overseas. During the Vietnam era, a DEROS was very personal and linked to the individual soldier as very few units rotated into/out of country as an entire unit. Your DEROS was your ticket to freedom and the basis for your short timers calendar. If you were just in country you'd say, "I got so long to go I have to look up to look down". Less than 99 days to DEROS and you were a "two-digit midget".

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