doinworkinvans Posted March 11, 2016 Share #576 Posted March 11, 2016 To what are you referring? The 2nd Infantry Division photo I posted above? Both that and a 7th Infantry Division combat patch earned on the DMZ in the 60's and 70's were extremely rare as not many troops would have qualified for them. I don't believe everyone who served in either division during the time frame automatically qualified to wear a combat patch. I think it was limited to those very few soldiers of the division who actually came under fire at the DMZ. Now a 2nd Cavalry Division combat patch would be extremely rare as I believe that division was deployed to North Africa in 1943 or 1944 and almost immediately broken up so that its soldiers were mostly sent to service units in the Mediterranean Theater. Not just that one - it was just one that jogged my memory. I guess your answer is kind of what I am asking....I suppose I need to understand combat zones and time periods to understand it completely I suppose. Thanks for the quick answer though! I enjoy the thread as I am a uniform guy, but just understand all the combat zones from different wars. -DV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share #577 Posted April 7, 2016 Here's another AMERICAL combat patch sighting, years and years after the Division was inactivated. He is Chief Warrant Officer 5 Steven Derry NYNG. Here's his story. http://readme.readme...!prettyPhoto/1/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tredhed2 Posted April 7, 2016 Share #578 Posted April 7, 2016 To what are you referring? The 2nd Infantry Division photo I posted above? Both that and a 7th Infantry Division combat patch earned on the DMZ in the 60's and 70's were extremely rare as not many troops would have qualified for them. I don't believe everyone who served in either division during the time frame automatically qualified to wear a combat patch. I think it was limited to those very few soldiers of the division who actually came under fire at the DMZ. Now a 2nd Cavalry Division combat patch would be extremely rare as I believe that division was deployed to North Africa in 1943 or 1944 and almost immediately broken up so that its soldiers were mostly sent to service units in the Mediterranean Theater. Sean has a point. I had a neighbor kid who was sent to Korea c.1969. He was messing with us because a couple of us had upcoming tours in RVN. He came home w/ a PH. Not too many 2nd ID GIs had those in 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share #579 Posted April 18, 2016 A 18th Abn Corps combat patch sighting on an unknown Colonel Full Type, circa late 1968, could be for WWII, hard to tell, but since this foto is at Bragg, there's a good chance it's for the Dom Rep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted April 20, 2016 Share #580 Posted April 20, 2016 Per the advice of Patches...US Army MSG of the 75th INF Division ca. 1962.Note 5th Marine Div. combat patch. Unit was performing BCT and other aspects of training troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted April 21, 2016 Share #581 Posted April 21, 2016 Thats cool. I have a friend that was in the NYG. He served in Vietnam with the 1st Marine dive, his combat shoulder patch. There is a cool article in an older Trading Post about a Vietnam Navy veteran that wore a SEABORNE combat patch on his NG class-A jacket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted April 22, 2016 Share #582 Posted April 22, 2016 Per the advice of Patches...US Army MSG of the 75th INF Division ca. 1962.Note 5th Marine Div. combat patch. Unit was performing BCT and other aspects of training troops. I admit I'm no expert on the evolution of the Army's enlisted insignia, so maybe some of you chevron experts can tell us when the full size Specialist 4 chevron overlapped with the wearing of the khaki twill chevrons worn by the sergeant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share #583 Posted April 22, 2016 I admit I'm no expert on the evolution of the Army's enlisted insignia, so maybe some of you chevron experts can tell us when the full size Specialist 4 chevron overlapped with the wearing of the khaki twill chevrons worn by the sergeant. That's a good catch. It's no overlapping really Sean, this NCO simply begged the Regs with this obsolete style, it being 1961, and a Reservist, he obviously got away with it, though can't see it being done by him, say by the mid 60s. Have seen conversely a few photos from this very late 50s-early 60s period where the 51 pattern OD on Blue Twill are worn still, however in these cases the ones we seen thus far have always been on fatique items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted April 24, 2016 Share #584 Posted April 24, 2016 Had originally posted this on the ephemera forum. Rescanned the negative at a higher DPI which brought out sharper details. This from the 76th INF DIV ca. 1960 or so. This 1Sgt saw a lot of action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share #585 Posted April 24, 2016 Had originally posted this on the ephemera forum. Rescanned the negative at a higher DPI which brought out sharper details. This from the 76th INF DIV ca. 1960 or so. This 1Sgt saw a lot of action. I'd be interested to know if he's wearing a RANGER tab over his 76th Div patch, former members of the WWIi Ranger Batts rated the wear of the tab, kinda looks like he is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted April 30, 2016 Share #586 Posted April 30, 2016 Merrill's Marauders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted April 30, 2016 Share #587 Posted April 30, 2016 20th Armored Division - one of the last Army units to enter combat in WWII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted April 30, 2016 Share #588 Posted April 30, 2016 A couple more from the 76th Div. ca. 1961-62 First is a Major Thibodeaux ( I think) a 101st Vet. and other is 1Sgt Dempsey 3rd Armored Div vet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted April 30, 2016 Share #589 Posted April 30, 2016 This CWO in the 76th Inf Div wears what I think may be an 80th Div. Combat Patch.ca. 1961-62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted May 1, 2016 Share #590 Posted May 1, 2016 This CWO in the 76th Inf Div wears what I think may be an 80th Div. Combat Patch.ca. 1961-62 Yup, definitely 80th Infantry Division. Don't think I've ever seen that one worn as a combat patch before. Very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share #591 Posted May 1, 2016 Any idea what unit decal that is 338? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted May 1, 2016 Share #592 Posted May 1, 2016 Any idea what unit decal that is 338? Looks to be the 417th Inf Rgt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share #593 Posted May 1, 2016 Looks to be the 417th Inf Rgt. Ah yes of course, for some reason I thought it was an Arrow or Spearhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted May 6, 2016 Share #594 Posted May 6, 2016 Here is a screenshot of a Sergeant Major at the Association of the United States Army's 1968 or 1969 meeting (Gen. William Westmoreland was guest speaker as Army Chief of Staff) wearing the Caribbean Command SSI as a combat patch. I guess the options are that he earned it in the Dominican Republic in 1965-1966 or else in World War II nearly 25 years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted May 6, 2016 Share #595 Posted May 6, 2016 This fatigue shirt most likely from the 70's in a current e-Bay listing shows the generic Airborne Ranger Infantry Company scroll worn as a combat patch. It doesn't look to be a put together to me. Most likely worn by a Vietnam vet from one of the LRP companies although I guess it could be from the Korean War. http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-ARMY-VIETNAM-COTTON-UTILITY-FATIGUE-SHIRT-82ND-AIRBORNE-RANGER-MEDIUM-1970-/262422867694? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted May 7, 2016 Share #596 Posted May 7, 2016 1st Ranger Battalion from World War II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted May 8, 2016 Share #597 Posted May 8, 2016 The soldier is Major Arthur D. "Bull" Simons while serving as an instructor at the Ranger Department in the early 50's, so the scroll he is wearing as a combat patch is the 6th Ranger Battalion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted May 9, 2016 Share #598 Posted May 9, 2016 Unknown scroll worn as a combat patch by a combat tracker at Fort Benning in 1969. Probably from one of the combat tracker teams in Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share #599 Posted May 9, 2016 Unknown scroll worn as a combat patch by a combat tracker at Fort Benning in 1969. Probably from one of the combat tracker teams in Vietnam. Interesting, the one with the scroll as a combat patch doesn't have or is not wearing a CIB, the other GI does as we see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted May 9, 2016 Share #600 Posted May 9, 2016 Interesting, the one with the scroll as a combat patch doesn't have or is not wearing a CIB, the other GI does as we see. Could be a DOG Tracking or handler scroll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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