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. Just noticed this one! My Dad was EM1 on Perkins '62-'63. Interestingly, when our son was in "A" School in Pensacola, his best buddy's grand paw was EM2 on Perkins at the same time. My dad remembered him.

 

Ahoy Steve,

 

I have some other PERKINS stuff and also some BRADLEY patches I should post for you on the Destroyer topic

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Ahoy Steve,

 

I have some other PERKINS stuff and also some BRADLEY patches I should post for you on the Destroyer topic

. Outstanding!
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Back to the Destroyer Escort Squadrons (most of these DE ships were later redesignated as Fast Frigates- FF - in 1975)

 

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Escort Squadron 6 - CORTRON SIX  O'ER WATERS CALM OR TROUBLED SEA

 

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and for Bearmon, an encore since I didn't have it handy when I posted it before

 

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DESRON 4 KEY SHIPS OF THE FLEET

(Key West Squadron - They kept watch on the Commies in the Caribbean Sea and Cuba throughout the Cold War)

 

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Additional Desron and other Flottilla etc:

 

COMDESRON 7

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DESRON 8

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DESRON 12

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DESRON 15

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DESRON 16

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DESRON 17

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COMDESFLOT 2 (Commander Destroyer Flotilla 2)

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COMDESFLOT 4

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CRUSDESFLOT 4

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COMDESFLOT 11

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COMCRUDESFLOT 12 (Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla 12)

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COMCRUSFORLANT (Commander Cruiser Destroyers Force Atlantic)

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Finally for today Destroyer Division 132

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Salvage Sailor

Destroyer Escort Squadrons are a bit more difficult to come by than DESRONS

 

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Beautiful 5 1/2" 1960'S Gemsco still in the wrapper from a USS COURTNEY (DE-1021) veteran

CORTRON 10 based in Newport R.I. - served primarily in the Med and Atlantic (2nd and 6th Fleets)

 

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some new ones from this week... All Japanese manufacture

 

Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla 11 different colors than the one I posted before:

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Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group 7th Fleet

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Cruiser Destroyer Group 3

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On 9/2/2014 at 2:46 AM, Bearmon said:

CORTRON 6 the only other CORTRON patch I have seen:

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Forgot I had this one too

 

CORTRON 5 - Destroyer Escort Squadron 5 - DE to DER type conversions

1955-1965 homeported at Seattle and Pearl Harbor. Established the Pacific radar barrier patrols

 

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Destroyer Development Group Two (DesDevGru 2)

The guinea pig destroyers used as test beds for the Atlantic Fleet

 

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On 12/22/2013 at 9:53 AM, sigsaye said:

This was my DESRON 13 patch while serving in USS Bradley, FF-1041 from '75-'79 Not as nice as my Dads, and bought in the ships store, Do not remember what brand, most likely Gemsco. As I recal, they supplied pretty much all ships jacket patches then.

 

Ahoy Steve,

 

This is my 1970's era DESRON 13, very similar to yours with the snarling white cat rather than all black

 

DESRON 13 001.jpg

 

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Comparison of reverse colors DESRON 17's

 

DESRON 17 001.jpg

 

Everything reversed except the seahorse

 

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The older DESRON 18 was posted earlier, this is the new patch

 

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DESRON 21 - The large Gemsco patch shown earlier - 1950's

 

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DESRON 22 the old and the new

 

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A bunch of Little Beavers - DESRON 23

 

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Reverse - Bearmon, the one you posted on page one (#9) is also an older Gemsco

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News Item 2011 - Say goodbye to the Keystone Squadron.

 

The Navy is shuttering Destroyer Squadron 24 on Sept. 30 after 55 years of service, as part of a larger reorganization to cut the overhead costs of operational staffs. DESRON 24 has had a memorable history, dating back to the days of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The squadron, which was stood up in 1956 and homeported in Newport, R.I., dispatched four ships to support the naval quarantine around Cuba. They secured boarding clearances for five Soviet merchant ships and helped to surface a Soviet submarine.

 

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The squadron has also served in many overseas operations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea, according to the squadron’s official history. DESRON 24 also contributed to Vietnam War and Operations Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom. In 1973, the squadron headquarters shifted to Mayport, Fla.  All four ships in DESRON 24 — destroyers Carney, Farragut, Roosevelt and The Sullivans — have transferred to DESRON 14, another Mayport, Fla.-based squadron that now has 16 ships assigned, according to Naval Surface Force Atlantic spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Bill Urban.

 

The squadron was nicknamed the Keystone Squadron because, at one point, the commodore and all the ship commanding officers hailed from Pennsylvania, the Keystone state. In keeping with this tradition, the decommissioning commodore, Capt. Aaron Jacobs, attended college at two universities in Pennsylvania.

 

After the closing of DESRON 24, the Navy will have 15 destroyer squadrons remaining, including three forward-deployed units that don’t have ships permanently assigned.

 

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.....and the Kama Aina squadron, DESRON 33 - homeport Pearl Harbor 1960's to 1970's.  I was assigned TDY to several of their ships.

 

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Here's a DESRON 17 Patch I found today, I've seen two versions so far in this thread. Any idea on the date of mine?

 

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Around 1980 give or take

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USS LOFBERG DD 759 Sumner class in service 1945 to 1971

 

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Flagship DESRON 7 Korean War

 

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