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3rd Signal. Ran into some of them when I was at Hood back in the day. I don't think they are around anymore.... How about this one? http://i42.tinypic.com/1z3negw.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Every one knows the most common army unit patches like 1st Cav, 3rd ID and 82nd airborne. Lets see if anyone can identify one of my old units. And lets see some of your rare unit patches. http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/lg/P3160VF_lg.jpg http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/std/P3160.jpg 3rd Signal. Ran into some of them when I was at Hood back in the day. I don't think they are around anymore.... How about this one? http://i42.tinypic.com/1z3negw.jpg modern 83rd Recon? |
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I didn't wear this on my uniform, Marines don't wear unit patches, but I was assigned to it for close to three years. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kaiheitai17/media/thumb_jcse.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/kaiheitai17/thumb_jcse.jpg</a> Joint Communication Service Element at McDill AFB? Yep, 78 to 81, when it was jokingly referred to as "Jimmy Carter's Select Employees". |
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Quoted: That's a fact. Here's a vintage original, theater made, paper-backed Son Tay Raid patch. Extremely rare. http://i.imgur.com/ECRZVIn.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Here's a vintage original, theater made, paper-backed Son Tay Raid patch. Extremely rare. http://i.imgur.com/ECRZVIn.jpg are you authorized to wear this patch? |
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<a href="http://s203.photobucket.com/user/72coupe/media/198th_zps6a017649.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa170/72coupe/198th_zps6a017649.jpg</a> 199th IN BDE? 198th Light Infantry Brigade. Always forget which BDE wears which patch. |
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Yep, 78 to 81, when it was jokingly referred to as "Jimmy Carter's Select Employees". View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I didn't wear this on my uniform, Marines don't wear unit patches, but I was assigned to it for close to three years. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kaiheitai17/media/thumb_jcse.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/kaiheitai17/thumb_jcse.jpg</a> Joint Communication Service Element at McDill AFB? Yep, 78 to 81, when it was jokingly referred to as "Jimmy Carter's Select Employees". I hear that's a great gig. I looked into it back in 99. Guy I called said they just filled the slot for my MOS. |
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This doesn't exist anymore but a lot of veterans have it on the right shoulder of the uniform hanging up in their closet. http://www.medalsofamerica.com/ItemImages/Large/P116.jpg Although there are many veterans that served in a war zone doing a job represented by this patch (including the first Army combat death in Vietnam) you will never see it on the right shoulder of any veteran's uniform. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5468/7377694352_2312eb1462_z.jpg View Quote Been awhile since I looked in the back of this closet of mine ![]() |
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg View Quote It looks like a Boy Scout Patrol patch. ![]() ETA: ![]() |
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It looks like a Boy Scout Patrol patch. ![]() ETA: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/skycatii/media/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/skycatii/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg</a> View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg It looks like a Boy Scout Patrol patch. ![]() ETA: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/skycatii/media/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/skycatii/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg</a> Asymmetric Warfare Group - Guys are on the black side of the fence , and nobody ever gives a straight answer on what they do exactly. Had a team of them come in to our unit and gave us advice |
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Quoted: Mobile Guerrilla Force http://vietnam-militaria.com/pics/patch-tf957-mg-front.jpg SOG https://www.vetfriends.com/catalog/images/3710_Army_MACV_SOG_Hat_lapel_Pin_2.jpg RT Hawaii http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/761ed75e0.jpg RT Hunter http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/75a56cc20.jpg RT Louisiana http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/76225c900.jpg RT Vermont http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/75ad92c20.jpg Special Commando Unit (SCU) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/38f357900.jpg Mike Force http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/634e11900.jpg Project Mule Train http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/31f42e900.jpg 1st Special Forces Group(Airborne) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/75082c230.jpg ODA-115, Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st SF GP(ABN) Psychological Operations http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/6a3b4dc20.jpg ODA-125, Company B, 1st Battalion, 1st SF GP(ABN) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/6b516f900.jpg ODA 533, C/1/5th SF Gp(ABN) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/78b72c3d0.jpg ODA-553, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/70ac665e0.jpg 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/70ae0d260.jpg ODA 17/18, 3rd BN, 7th SF GP http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/60b62a2c0.jpg SCUBA Personnel, 3rd Battalion 7th SF GP(ABN) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/62f490900.jpg ODA-7, 3rd Battalion (Project), 7th Special Forces Group(Airborne) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7b7a9b900.jpg 10th Special Forces Group's 'Crash Hawk' http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/6a34d42c0.jpg 10th Special Forces Group http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/6faf0d2c0.jpg 4th Infantry "IVY" Division LRRP patch (pre-1968) http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7ce691900.jpg 24th Infantry Division Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7d5249900.jpg 199th Light Infantry Brigade RECONDO http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7cd862650.jpg 5th Special Forces MACV RECONDO Qualification Badge http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7773435e0.jpg MACV RECONDO http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7c6797900.jpg unknown: http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/6abbf8c80.jpg http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/71d4285e0.jpg http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7b9621900.jpg http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7c5748900.jpg http://www.ljmilitaria.com/armygroundforcespatches/7cad2d580.jpg View Quote Under your "Unknown" list, the M.F. is MIKE Force (Vietnam). From Wiki: The Mobile Strike Force Command, or MIKE Force, was a key component of United States Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War. They served with indigenous soldiers selected and trained through the largely minority Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) and were led by American SF and Australian Army Training Team Personnel AATTV. MIKE Force was a force multiplier, operating what is today called a Foreign Internal Defense mission. MIKE Force was composed of the persecuted Degar, Bahnar, Hmong, Nung, Jarai, Khmer Krom, and Montagnards. MIKE Force was active under MACV, Army Special Forces, from 1964 to 1970 and under ARVN until 1974. MIKE Force waged special warfare against the Viet Minh, NLF (Viet Cong), and PAVN (North Vietnamese Army) oppressors in various detachments, volunteering in support of MIKE Force missions. MIKE Force's mission was to act as a country-wide quick reaction force for securing, reinforcing, and recapturing CIDG A Camps, as well as to conduct special reconnaissance patrols. Search and rescue and search and destroy missions were also assigned. The conventional unit alternative to Special Forces detachments like MIKE was Tiger Force, which was primarily tasked with counter-guerrilla warfare against enemies from behind their lines that emphasized body-count rather than force multiplication. MIKE Force had a critical role in the search and rescue of downed American pilots because they were mobile and often in close proximity to the DMZ. MIKE Force also designated drop zones, landing zones, called in air strikes on high value targets, and collected intelligence during recons, much like the LRRPs. In 1970 MIKE Force was disbanded after Vietnamization ruined the loyalty of the indigenous personnel when SF were ordered to abandon them to the command of the South Vietnamese. While many Montagnards were Christian, they were still looked down upon by the Vietnamese and referred to as savages. In 1974 what indigenous personnel of the MIKE Forces remained in Vietnam were, along with their tribes of origin, systematically hunted down and murdered by the North Vietnamese when they took over the South. Some Hmong, Nung, Montagnard, and other groups still escape and evade persecution in Vietnam while struggling for independence, much like the people of Burma who were left by Detachment 101 when, like Det. 101, MACV was ordered home by the President. |
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Reese, Quartermaster, Flak and Sheridan.... Good times! ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/17FABdeSSI.jpg Everybody seemed to think this was a National Guard patch. 17th FA Bde. I was in 1/36FA, Reese Kaserne, Augsburg FRG Reese, Quartermaster, Flak and Sheridan.... Good times! ![]() Yes, very, very good times. ![]() |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/17FABdeSSI.jpg Everybody seemed to think this was a National Guard patch. 17th FA Bde. I was in 1/36FA, Reese Kaserne, Augsburg FRG Reese, Quartermaster, Flak and Sheridan.... Good times! ![]() Yes, very, very good times. ![]() Remember the Silver Dollar Saloon, or the Rock Fabrik? ![]() ![]() Speaking of Augsburg: ![]() |
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197th Infantry Brigade, i wore this at benning 2009-2010 <a href="http://s953.photobucket.com/user/Bushmaster1984/media/150px-197thInfantryBrigade_zps29a424a4.png.html" target="_blank">http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae18/Bushmaster1984/150px-197thInfantryBrigade_zps29a424a4.png</a> View Quote "Bite the Bullet" brigade ![]() |
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Flying dildo aka titty F*cker. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/172nd_Infantry_Brigade_SSI.svg/160px-172nd_Infantry_Brigade_SSI.svg.png View Quote I remember that reflagging ceremony. The Army only did it because they were sending some of the Manchu's over to the Sinai for "peacekeeping" and someone from DA finally got wise to our (at the time) current unit patch and figured if they deployed with it, the arabs would start shooting thinking we were IDF. Because of the 6th ID Light patch, the Manchu's were dubbed the "Screaming Heb's" and we were dubbed the "Jumping Jews" because of the 6 pointed star patch. The patches DA comes up with sometimes leaves me wondering sometimes. |
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Remember the Silver Dollar Saloon, or the Rock Fabrik? ![]() ![]() Speaking of Augsburg: http://www.militaryuniformsupply.com/files/products/6/66th-military-intelligence-brigade-patch-subdued.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/17FABdeSSI.jpg Everybody seemed to think this was a National Guard patch. 17th FA Bde. I was in 1/36FA, Reese Kaserne, Augsburg FRG Reese, Quartermaster, Flak and Sheridan.... Good times! ![]() Yes, very, very good times. ![]() Remember the Silver Dollar Saloon, or the Rock Fabrik? ![]() ![]() Speaking of Augsburg: http://www.militaryuniformsupply.com/files/products/6/66th-military-intelligence-brigade-patch-subdued.jpg Saw Jane's Addiction at the Rok Fabrik. Got stabbed in the thigh by a Turk. Slapped a Field Dressing on it and rocked on. Two days later sucked, trying to force my leg through a pair of Kafka's (that place outside the front gate at Sheridan) overstarched BDUs with a stab wound in the thigh...I'm not sure how I lived through my early twenties. |
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Quoted: Every one knows the most common army unit patches like 1st Cav, 3rd ID and 82nd airborne. Lets see if anyone can identify one of my old units. And lets see some of your rare unit patches. http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/lg/P3160VF_lg.jpg http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/std/P3160.jpg View Quote |
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Quoted: Saw Jane's Addiction at the Rok Fabrik. Got stabbed in the thigh by a Turk. Slapped a Field Dressing on it and rocked on. Two days later sucked, trying to force my leg through a pair of Kafka's (that place outside the front gate at Sheridan) overstarched BDUs with a stab wound in the thigh...I'm not sure how I lived through my early twenties. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Saw Jane's Addiction at the Rok Fabrik. Got stabbed in the thigh by a Turk. Slapped a Field Dressing on it and rocked on. Two days later sucked, trying to force my leg through a pair of Kafka's (that place outside the front gate at Sheridan) overstarched BDUs with a stab wound in the thigh...I'm not sure how I lived through my early twenties. Boots spit shined like mirrors...................... Eggs to order in the MESS HALL....................... The smell of diesel will bring back memories like it was yesterday...................................
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Asymmetric Warfare Group - Guys are on the black side of the fence , and nobody ever gives a straight answer on what they do exactly. Had a team of them come in to our unit and gave us advice View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg It looks like a Boy Scout Patrol patch. ![]() ETA: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/skycatii/media/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/skycatii/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg</a> Asymmetric Warfare Group - Guys are on the black side of the fence , and nobody ever gives a straight answer on what they do exactly. Had a team of them come in to our unit and gave us advice We had some of those guys come talk to us, IIRC. I don't think they wore anything though. |
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg View Quote AWG |
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Here is a hint I wore this patch for almost exactly 1 year http://i39.tinypic.com/dyp0k9.jpg View Quote USARPAC |
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg View Quote Boy Scout archery merit badge? |
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Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How about the hourglass. They disbanded the whole 7th ID but I got one. 7th ID is back Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg where is your moptop? ![]() |
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How about the hourglass. They disbanded the whole 7th ID but I got one. 7th ID is back Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg where is your moptop? ![]() I think I remember the MPs being exempt from the mop-tops? To finish our ROP when my COHORT got to Ord, we had to sit out on the sidewalk and sew our own. That sucked!! |
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I think I remember the MPs being exempt from the mop-tops? To finish our ROP when my COHORT got to Ord, we had to sit out on the sidewalk and sew our own. That sucked!! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How about the hourglass. They disbanded the whole 7th ID but I got one. 7th ID is back Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg where is your moptop? ![]() I think I remember the MPs being exempt from the mop-tops? To finish our ROP when my COHORT got to Ord, we had to sit out on the sidewalk and sew our own. That sucked!! I was there before / after the transition to (L) everyone made their own.. no COTS product available, so you were not alone. originally we used strips of burlap sand bags, but the dye in them was an eye irritant (IIRC), so cut up BDU's were what we ended up with. |
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Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How about the hourglass. They disbanded the whole 7th ID but I got one. 7th ID is back Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg Where's your Ragtop Helmet Cover? Light Fighter Tab? ![]() |
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I was there before / after the transition to (L) everyone made their own.. no COTS product available, so you were not alone. originally we used strips of burlap sand bags, but the dye in them was an eye irritant (IIRC), so cut up BDU's were what we ended up with. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Wa wa wahhhhhh? I was in the last 7th ID unit to go into a combat zone. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/mazawakhan/somm.jpg where is your moptop? ![]() I think I remember the MPs being exempt from the mop-tops? To finish our ROP when my COHORT got to Ord, we had to sit out on the sidewalk and sew our own. That sucked!! I was there before / after the transition to (L) everyone made their own.. no COTS product available, so you were not alone. originally we used strips of burlap sand bags, but the dye in them was an eye irritant (IIRC), so cut up BDU's were what we ended up with. What Company, Battalion, Regiment? I was there when we Stood the 7th ID (light) back up..... A Co, 6th, 31st.......ETS'd 8/77....... ![]() |
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http://www.angelfire.com/md2/patches/images/amnp.jpg Manhattan Project http://www.angelfire.com/md2/patches/images/hqetousa2.jpg HQ ETO 1944 (Worn by Lee Marvin in the Dirty Dozen) View Quote Worn by Lee Marvin in real life... ![]() |
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Asymmetric Warfare Group - Guys are on the black side of the fence , and nobody ever gives a straight answer on what they do exactly. Had a team of them come in to our unit and gave us advice View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg It looks like a Boy Scout Patrol patch. ![]() ETA: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/skycatii/media/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/skycatii/175px-Flaming_Arrow.jpg</a> Asymmetric Warfare Group - Guys are on the black side of the fence , and nobody ever gives a straight answer on what they do exactly. Had a team of them come in to our unit and gave us advice Ah. I think I vaguely remember reading an article about them being forced to give up their HK416s by big army for one reason or another (this was a few years ago). |
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Every one knows the most common army unit patches like 1st Cav, 3rd ID and 82nd airborne. Lets see if anyone can identify one of my old units. And lets see some of your rare unit patches. http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/lg/P3160VF_lg.jpg http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/std/P3160.jpg Really, when? 2000-2002 for me |
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Saw Jane's Addiction at the Rok Fabrik. Got stabbed in the thigh by a Turk. Slapped a Field Dressing on it and rocked on. Two days later sucked, trying to force my leg through a pair of Kafka's (that place outside the front gate at Sheridan) overstarched BDUs with a stab wound in the thigh...I'm not sure how I lived through my early twenties. View Quote Rock Fabrik was awesome. Saw a couple of great gigs there.... Hahaha, yeah the Turks would always start shit with the GI's, then MP would roll in and crack everybodies head. Good times... ![]() The place outside the Sheridan gate was Kalka's. He had a cleaners/drycleans and did all the BDU starching, or altering Class A's. Old Kalka passed away, but AFAIK his son took over and the place does embroideries/patches. How we survived our 20's..... A miracle. Haha. Damn, this is bringing back some mighty fine memories... |
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Here is a newer one - Most people have no fucking clue what it is http://www.worldmilitary.org/img/3651583341-alpha_units_patches_us_army.jpg View Quote AWG. I was around when they got the news that they had to give up their 416s.. Ooohhh the butthurt flowed that day. |
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