Patches In Action, Part 2: Images Of SSI Used Other Than On Uniforms

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And a 9th Infantry Division Basic yearbook from 1950, it also has the 1st Army patch on it as well, here it is the old OD type, it will soon be superseded by the new Red and White one, that one comes out in November 1950.

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The FOLLOW ME of the Infantry School on the hull of this M48 Patton, the people there in short jackets and ball caps (one in Service Cap in drivers postion) hovering on and around tank are Air Force Academy Cadets doing spot of familiarization training for Combined Arms Operations at Fort Benning Georgia in 1962.

 

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Another Cake sighting. The Ballistic Missile Agency on a Cake.

 

The unit commander John Bruce Medaris gets set to cut it up for guests with a sword at the unit's one year anniversary party in 1956 at the Redstone Arsenal Alabama.

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Photo from a 1944 issue of Army Life showing a WAC wearing the Replacement And School Command SSI and Infantry School DUI on her cap while standing nect to a sign depicting the Infantry School SSI/DUI. Of course at this time, the insignia had only been approved as the DUI for the Infantry School and would not be approved as a separate SSI until 1951.

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Several senior NCO's reenlisting in the Regualar Army. Photos from the September 1945 issue of Army Life. First photo shows the 9th Service Command. Second photo shows U.S. Army Alaska and the last photo shows the 3rd Service Command. 

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And a First Sergeant of the Army Service Forces reenlisting. From the October 1945 issue of Army Life.

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USAMGIK patch which would become the PMAG then KMAG after 1949 sometime, though with the bottom Tab.

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Here's an odd one. The sign was located at Camp Carter, the headquarters for Company P 75th Infantry, the LRRP unit assigned to the 1st Brigade 5th Infantry Division in Vietnam. As the photo states, Camp Carter was located at Quang Tri, which was in the very northernmost part of of I Corps in South Vietnam, only a few miles from the DMZ. 

 

The sign shows the SSI of the 5th Infantry division with an AIRBORNE tab on the right. 

 

But notice that on the left it also shows the SSI of II Field Force Vietnam with an AIRBORNE tab. IIFFV was a corps level headquarters that commanded Army units in the III and IV Corps Tactical Zones of South Vietnam, the area around Saigon down to the Mekong Delta, and hundreds of miles from Quang Tri. 

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1st Armored Division patch placard affixed to a tank, maybe the command tank of William Desorby who's standing in front of it in 1971

[Rhscott]

Here is our 2ID blast wall at Kandahar Air Field in 2012. 296th Bde Spt Bn. The combined patch has the US, AFG and Romanian flags. All gone now with Operation Haul rump being completed. 

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XVIII Airborne Corps and the 1st Sustainment Command on a sign for the fictitious DRAGON BASE CHAD in 1994 service comedy In The Army Now 

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Here’s a cool one from 13th Air Force 

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Twofer for the Ballistic Missile Agency here.

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Man from 7th Cavalry in front of building with 2nd Cavalry Brigade Commander and Staff insignia on it (1st Cav Div).

 

                                                                                                                                                          Image of SSI borrowed from kiaiokalewa...

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Claude F. Clayton Divisional Artillery Commander 3st Infantry Division.

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Fairly well-known image, but still..

 

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176th Regimental Combat Team as part of a Virginia National Guard recruiting display 

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PRNG, patch and unit crest

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On 2/10/2015 at 10:36 PM, patches said:

Thanks D. A mural then, wow it looks very Art Deco, very 20s 30s, like some I've seen on the walls of Rockefeller Center or in the Chrysler Building here in Manhattan.

Jimmy standing in front of it, here we get a good view of this 8th AF mural.