USN Department, Division & Rate Specific Patches

[Salvage Sailor]

M Division, main propulsion - Machinist's Mates

USS FRANCIS HAMMOND (FF-1067)

STEAM 'TIL THE APOCALYPSE

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS SARATOGA (CVA-60) M Division West Pac 1972

Her last Vietnam Cruise before rejoining the Cold War Atlantic Fleet

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS SARATOGA (CVA-60) G Division Bomb Pushers

Cold War Atlantic/Sixth Fleet patch

 

PS - Bearmon, that Coral Sea Tonkin Gulf patch is Ichiban

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS PAUL F. FOSTER (DD-964) Spruance class Destroyer Snipe patch (Engineering Rates) In commissioned service 1976 - 2003

Still in service as Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Port Hueneme, CA

 

 

"Paul F. Foster has been reconfigured as the Self-Defense Test Ship to provide the Navy an at-sea, remotely controlled, engineering test and evaluation platform without the risk to personnel or operational assets."

 

[busternfo]

Love those Dept. patches. Thanks for sharing!

[Salvage Sailor]

G Division - Main Deck, USS FORRESTAL (CVA-59) Med Cruise 1969-70

 

[Salvage Sailor]

From a USS AMERICA (CVA-66) crewman 1974

 

USS AMERICA (CVA-66) AM (Aircraft Missiles) Division with E circa 1974

 

 

USS AMERICA (CVA-66) Captain's Gig Crew during the 1974 Mediterranean Sea deployment

Had to be a squared away sailor to be on the gig crew.

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Sonar NTDS console on the Boomer USS ALABAMA (SSBN-731) In service since 1985

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Surface to Air Missiles - 5" Vietnam War Era

Rates - Gunner's Mate Missiles (GMM) and Fire Control Technician Missiles (FTM)

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64) Kitty Hawk class Supercarrier

Operations Department - 5" Philippine made, Cold War Era

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

1950's Japanese cut edge OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT RD (OS), SM, YN, ET

Nice detail on the S M semaphore flags denoting S ignal M an

 

 

 

[Bearmon]

USS Canopus AS 34 Medical Dept.

 

[sigsaye]

1950's Japanese cut edge OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

 

RD (OS), SM, YN, ET - Nice detail on the S M semaphore flags denoting S ignal M an

. Actually, the crossed flags are "Papa" and "Delta". The shield is colored like "Oscar".

[Salvage Sailor]

Need to work on the SM section of my vertigrised brain........Though I was "seeing the air" (S), but I didn't "see the pond" (P).....

[Salvage Sailor]

USS SARATOGA (CV-60)

Saratoga Electric Company - Electricians

 

 

Weapons Division Nuke patch "We Control"

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Another set of USS SARATOGA patches

6" Engineers patch.....

 

 

 

Which came with these two Japanese made M Division patches (USS SARATOGA)

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Another USS SARATOGA (CVA-60) Engineering patch

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Electrical Division USS POINT DEFIANCE (LSD-31), Vietnam

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Essex class carrier USS INTREPID (CVS-11) Communications Department post 1961

 

 

 

[Bearmon]

USS WASP Combat Information Center

 

[firefighter]

Philippine made

[Bearmon]

USS New Jersey BB 62 M division

 

[firefighter]

Japanese made generic CR Div patch.

Vietnam/WESPAC

[Salvage Sailor]

7th Fleet Flagship USS OKLAHOMA CITY (CG-5) 1975-1979 6" FG Division GUN BATTERY Rate patch

FTG Fire Control Technician Guns - GMG Gunners Mate Guns

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

AG - Aerographer's Mate, the Navy's Weathermen aboard

USS SHANGRI LA (CVA-38) circa 1960's Naval Weather Service