VolunteerArmoury Posted June 23, 2014 Share #451 Posted June 23, 2014 Only by Texas A&M AFROTC cadets which they still use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share #452 Posted June 23, 2014 Anyone ever see a picture of the AAF patch the Air ROTC patch being worn???!! This being the patch in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doinworkinvans Posted June 24, 2014 Share #453 Posted June 24, 2014 Correct...I was wondering if anyone has a period picture of this being used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share #454 Posted June 24, 2014 Correct...I was wondering if anyone has a period picture of this being used Tried to find one but no luck so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted June 24, 2014 Share #455 Posted June 24, 2014 Could have sworn I saw a picture of one being worn.It wasn't WW2 era.It was more 50's/60's if I remember right.I'll have to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted June 24, 2014 Share #456 Posted June 24, 2014 Here's one on a BDU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share #457 Posted June 25, 2014 Here's one.......maybe, a circa 1950 photo posted in the ever popular Post WWII, 50s & 60s U.S. Air Force, look at the indivdual at the far left of the rank, an officer or a cadet? the patch seems to look alot the Air ROTC from here. It might of been taken at universty, Georgia Tech, Clemson, maybe Perdue, Wake Forest etc etc, can't recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share #458 Posted June 29, 2014 It was from what I found the standard under arms item for officers and men of this unit back then and other Washington based units that had Honor Guard Duty. In this photo below we see an Honor Guard in Dress Blues of a unit other than the 3rd Infantry (note no Buff Straps), unit/branch unknown, we can date it to late 40s early 50s, not after 1951, note the quadruple discs and the small Golden Light 1948 Regulation ranks, and of course no Blue stuff as they may not even be Infantry. Here we see the same garrison belt Black, along with the leather first aid pouch indicating it use then as a item worn with Dress Blues when under arms. 1950s-honor-guard.jpg Here's another photo of the Dress Blues with shoulder patches, this one far away from Washington DC, early 1951, these guys are at the Presidio of San Fransisco and are members of a 6th Army Band, they are in the company of the 6th Army Pipe band. So now we are seeing that the wear of shoulder patches and tabs on Blues was not limited to unit in Washington, makes one now ask the question if it was all/only Honor Guard/Bands that had as a uniform the Dress Blues that shoulder patches were allowed to be worn on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doinworkinvans Posted June 30, 2014 Share #459 Posted June 30, 2014 It does look an awful lot like it....cant really tell when I zoom it gets fuzzy but Id say it looks pretty close! Closet one Ive ever seen anyway...Since this is the case of not finding one...I wonder if this truly can be considered a WW2 era patch?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share #460 Posted June 30, 2014 It does look an awful lot like it....cant really tell when I zoom it gets fuzzy but Id say it looks pretty close! Closet one Ive ever seen anyway...Since this is the case of not finding one...I wonder if this truly can be considered a WW2 era patch?? It came out in 1947 believe it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 4, 2014 Share #461 Posted July 4, 2014 MSG Queen, who narrated a series of instructional films for the Army in the 50s called "The Big Picture", wearing the Fifteenth Army SSI in one picture and General Headquarters, Pacific in another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 4, 2014 Share #462 Posted July 4, 2014 Soldier in front is wearing a 25th Infantry Division sandwich in Vietnam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 4, 2014 Share #463 Posted July 4, 2014 Ninth Army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 4, 2014 Share #464 Posted July 4, 2014 Ranger Airborne tab worn by an NCO of the Berlin Brigade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 21, 2014 Share #465 Posted July 21, 2014 Military District Of Washington with Honor Guard tab. Some of the companies of the Old Guard have deployed to Africa and perhaps Iraq during the Global War On Terrorism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atb Posted July 22, 2014 Share #466 Posted July 22, 2014 Military District Of Washington with Honor Guard tab. Some of the companies of the Old Guard have deployed to Africa and perhaps Iraq during the Global War On Terrorism. Not "perhaps." A company of the 1st BN did deploy to Iraq. And remember, all battalions of the 3rd Infantry are "Old Guard," not just the 1st and 4th based in Virginia at Ft, Myer. The 2nd Bn. At Ft. Lewis is "Old Guard," too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share #467 Posted July 22, 2014 Not "perhaps." A company of the 1st BN did deploy to Iraq. And remember, all battalions of the 3rd Infantry are "Old Guard," not just the 1st and 4th based in Virginia at Ft, Myer. The 2nd Bn. At Ft. Lewis is "Old Guard," too. That's right remember this topic? http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/166921-old-guard-vietnam-tricorn-ideas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolunteerArmoury Posted July 22, 2014 Share #468 Posted July 22, 2014 Military District Of Washington with Honor Guard tab. Some of the companies of the Old Guard have deployed to Africa and perhaps Iraq during the Global War On Terrorism. Not "perhaps." A company of the 1st BN did deploy to Iraq. And remember, all battalions of the 3rd Infantry are "Old Guard," not just the 1st and 4th based in Virginia at Ft, Myer. The 2nd Bn. At Ft. Lewis is "Old Guard," too. That's right remember this topic? http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/166921-old-guard-vietnam-tricorn-ideas/ They're absolutely correct. I just wrote this for another conversation: I am well aware of all that (I was employed by TOG at Ft. Myer from 1992-2005), but as far as I know, no elements of 1st or 4th BN deployed to Afghanistan. To the Horn of Africa and Iraq, yes, but not to Afghanistan. Only the 2nd Battalion which was reactivated in March 2001 served in Afghanistan in 2011 following its 2003 (or 4), 2006-7 & 2009 deployments to Iraq all with the 3rd SBCT 2nd ID from Lewis. The MDW assigned 3rd Inf Reg deployed B Company to Ethiopia in 2003, D Co to Djibouti in 2007 & C Co to Taji, Iraq in 2009 which I have photos of some of their stay on Taji when I visited their camp. So a MDW CSIB/SSI-FWTS could be awarded for either tour in Africa or the one Iraq with the other guys being legible for the 2nd ID for Afghanistan & the other Iraq tours. In 2004 the CG of the MDW authorized a "provincial reorganization" on 16 March 2004 so that in addition to the ceremonial roles they could become more like a maneuver brigade & deploy in support of GWOT, OIF, & OEF if need be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 25, 2014 Share #469 Posted July 25, 2014 USARV SSI worn with an Airborne tab on the ACU of Chaplain (Lt. Col) Lt. Col. Irvine Bryer. Photo came from a 2007 online issue of "Stars and Stripes". The article doesn't reference his particular assignment in Vietnam but says he served two tours. http://www.stripes.com/news/medical-chaplain-in-iraq-serves-god-and-country-1.64896 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share #470 Posted July 25, 2014 USARV SSI worn with an Airborne tab on the ACU of Chaplain (Lt. Col) Lt. Col. Irvine Bryer. Photo came from a 2007 online issue of "Stars and Stripes". The article doesn't reference his particular assignment in Vietnam but says he served two tours. http://www.stripes.com/news/medical-chaplain-in-iraq-serves-god-and-country-1.64896 Did some Rigger units wear the USARV patch??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e19 Posted July 26, 2014 Share #471 Posted July 26, 2014 After 5th SFG left the RVN in March 1971, SF personnel assigned to CCN, CCC, & CCS, became TF1AE, TF2AE, & TF3AE, and wore baseball caps and USARV SS, but I believe that was after Byers did his second tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted August 2, 2014 Share #472 Posted August 2, 2014 SP4 Joey Walsh wearing an E Company (LRP) 20th Infantry scroll on his dress uniform while on leave from Vietnam in 1968 along with a later photo of him wearing the I Field Force Vietnam SSI with Airborne tab as his combat patch for the same unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted August 2, 2014 Share #473 Posted August 2, 2014 1st Marine Division SSI worn by a soldier in 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share #474 Posted August 15, 2014 Two photos of the 536th AAA Bn as a combat patch ona Ike and a wool shirt, one a real odd multi tab number. Photos orignally posted by member Costa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted August 19, 2014 Share #475 Posted August 19, 2014 Philippine Department SSI being worn as a combat patch by Staff Sergeant Kenneth Porwoll, a member of the 194th Tank Battalion and survivor of the Bataan Death March Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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