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Vietnam Pocket hangers ADFSC Detachment Four ?


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ADFSC Automatic Data Field Systems Command.

 

 

Here's a couple more, sew on pocket patch types that were on sale on Ebay a ways back.

 

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The Riverine pieces are brass discs, I think they are for putting on plaques. They are about 2 5/8" in diameter

Brad

The MRF beret pieces are pretty large, oversized, for a beret.

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I think you are correct, one has one clutch post left, the other are broken off, definitely not for a plaque, thanks again for the help!!

 

 

 

P.S. I just found one on Wartime Collectables website, appears to be for a pocket hanger

The MRF beret pieces are pretty large, oversized, for a beret.

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Andrei, thanks for the info, it has the US soldiers name on the back, same guy the patches came from, I think its an ARVN rank tab?

Definitely not ARVN but a left over of the Indochina war.

 

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LTC Count Nicolas Roumiantzoff, 1st Régiment de Marche de Spahis Marocains, 1944. Your captain rank was used as chest rank for overalls.

 

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The MRF metal patches are to be worn the pocket.

reason being is you can take it off and put it on the next jacket you get out of laundry.

I Have seen them also worn on a beret and do own some.

 

I have one on a plaque also with the pins grounded off.

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vintageproductions

Yes, the ones originally posted are originals.

 

Within a week of him first posting them, the fakers in Vietnam had already started seller their copies of them on Ebay.

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Geezer123v

ADFSC was the US Army's Automatic Data Field System Command, based at Ft Bevoir, VA. Detachement Four, of which I was an original member, was established at Ist Log Command HQ just outside Tan Son Nhut AB in August 1965. It was a small team, 2 officers and about 10 enlisted members, whose mission was to introduce the use of NCR500 computers at Direct Support (DS) and General Support (GS) units throughout VN. Maj Clemon Wesley, SigC, was its first CO. The computers were used to automate the tracking and ordering of various supplies. Because we weren't authorized to wear AMC, CDC, or 1st Log shoulder insignia, I designed the pocket patch to establish some sort of identity. Many units did the same, as I recall. ADFSC was part of both AMC (Army Material Command) and CDC (Combat Development Command) so those organizations' insignias are included  in the design. The upward pointing sword was borrowed from the MACV and USARV insignias. The overall shape of the patch is  representative of the NCR500's magnetic card storage. The brown horizontal stripes in the lower right represent the magnetic stripes on the cards that were used to store data on various items, perhaps an  exhaust manifold gasket for a truck engine. This was how the cards were shown in NCR documentation for the computers. The patch on the right looks like the one I still have, so was probably one of the originals we had made. The one on the left is probably from a batch made after I DEROS'd in 1967. I don't recall seeing any with a leather strap hanger. I'll bet there aren't too many of these pocket patches left.

 

Tom H.

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