FTLewisBrat Posted January 8, 2019 Share #1 Posted January 8, 2019 Looking for opinions... are these are legitimate or foreign made copies. Any help is appreciated! Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan H. Posted January 8, 2019 Share #2 Posted January 8, 2019 These look like they are German made based on the grey-green material. That would be correct for the time period as the 11th ACR was stationed in Germany from the 1970's to the 1990's. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted January 9, 2019 Share #3 Posted January 9, 2019 Are there actually foreign made reproduction TCQC patches floating around in the market? These would not seem to be worth the fake artists time or trouble when they could making more high dollar items. But I will believe anything is possible when it comes to fakes and reproductions. And as Allan noted, many of the originals will be foreign made to begin with, especially for units in Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12A54 Posted January 9, 2019 Share #4 Posted January 9, 2019 In my experience, no such patches were ever officially made. All were unit designed and locally contracted and made. I earned qual patches like these in Korea, W. Germany, and CONUS and never saw any that were sourced from official US patch manufacturers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wake1941 Posted January 9, 2019 Share #5 Posted January 9, 2019 None of these patches were contracted by the government. Most were private made, I see no problem with the ones posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 9, 2019 Share #6 Posted January 9, 2019 4 pages worth TCQC pocket patches from the 1960s up to the relative present. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/31348-tcqc-patches/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTLewisBrat Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share #7 Posted January 9, 2019 Thanks to everyone for the great information. I suppose "foreign-made" was a poor choice of words, what I really meant was newly manufactured but artificially aged to look vintage. Sounds like these are okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wake1941 Posted January 9, 2019 Share #8 Posted January 9, 2019 They are not artificially aged I would say they are late 70s and definitely foreign made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Dinackus Posted January 1, 2021 Share #9 Posted January 1, 2021 The 11th ACR awarded this patch, with various tabs that identified the weapons system and year, from 1974 through 1983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzcav Posted February 22, 2022 Share #10 Posted February 22, 2022 Not all had the grey green back. I have several from two trips to Fulda. Some have a lightish grey and some have a white cheesecloth backing. Not all were for TCQC, Aerial gunnery is one I have, Pony Express FTX and Warsteed I, II and III, as well. I think the ARTEP’s were different too, I have several of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted February 23, 2022 Share #11 Posted February 23, 2022 We had a long thread about TCQC patches sometime back: And this update: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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