Soldier's Stash
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— The Soldier
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The Soldier's Stash is a cosmetic item for the Soldier. It adds a black band around the Soldier's helmet, holding up a pack of cigarettes and an ace of spades playing card.
Painted variants
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Update history
May 21, 2009 Patch (Sniper vs. Spy Update)
- [Undocumented] The Soldier's Stash was added to the game.
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- The Soldier's Stash was made paintable.
- [Undocumented] Added a community-contributed description for the Soldier's Stash.
- [Undocumented] The Soldier's Stash can now be uncrated with Unusual quality.
- Paint textures for the Soldier's Stash were improved.
January 25, 2013 [Item schema update]
- The Soldier's Stash was removed from the item drop system and Mann Co. Store, and can no longer be uncrated with Unusual quality or crafted.
- Updated the Soldier's Stash's equip region.
- [Undocumented] Updated the equip region.
- Updated the
equip_region
for the Soldier's Stash. - [Undocumented] Updated the item type of the Soldier's Stash.
- [Undocumented] Added the Limited attribute to the Soldier's Stash.
Notes
- The hat description was written by Man Of Faith ™ for the Hat Describing Contest.
Trivia
- The band was designed to hold a cloth camouflage cover to the helmet as well as foliage, in order to blend the helmet shape and color into the surrounding vegetation. In the Vietnam war, this band more commonly held cigarettes, as the Soldier does here, as well as insect repellent or an extra rifle magazine, as shown in the movie Full Metal Jacket.
- The use of the card itself also comes from the use of "Death Cards" in the Vietnam War, where American soldiers, believing that the spades was a sign of ill-fortune in Vietnamese culture, would put Aces of Spades on the bodies of dead Vietnamese soldiers (sometimes even littering the cards on the battlefield) to psychologically demoralize the Viet Cong. Though the tactic had little effect on the Viet Cong themselves, it was a source of morale for American soldiers. Some soldiers wore it like the Soldier does in their helmet-bands, often as an anti-peace sign (Peace being another thing the Soldier deeply despises).
- The Soldier's Stash's was one of the first nine hats added to the game on the Day 9 (bonus day) of the Sniper vs. Spy Update
See also
- Other Vietnam War themed helmets:
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