Sgt Grit,
I've been reading your great newsletter (and ordering items from you) for quite a few years. I'm putting my two cents in on the Yellow Footprints. When I went to MCRDSD in Sept. of 59 (Plt 273) there was definitely no Yellow Foot Prints. I still have my Recruit Book and saw no photos or reference to them.
In response to J. Womack in the newsletter of 9/19/2012 Utilities. If I recall right the trousers also had hidden button flaps and the jacket had an inside pocket with a button. I can't remember if it was on the right or left side. I believe they were of a herringbone material. We called them Utes, Dungarees or Utilities. Attached is a photo of me in Utes.
Attached is a photo of my short timers jacket from Hawaii.
Lloyd "Pappy" Reynolds
http://home.earthlink.net/~reynoldslg/ironhorsemarine.html
C/1/4 0311, 0331 – F/2/4 0331 1960-1962
B/1st/Tks 1811 1962-1963
USMCR
B/3rd/Tks 1811 1966-1968 Vietnam
5th MP Bn, H&S 5th Tk Bn, Tracked Vehicle School 1968-1970
Semper Fi