GIMemories Posted December 19, 2016 Share #1 Posted December 19, 2016 I was going through my patches and came across this one, which has a story behind it, and I want to come clean with my newfound militaria friends. I can only use the excuse that I was young and impulsive. I was assigned to the 44th Missile Maintenance Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. I worked in maintenance supervision and one day my boss brought me a package to put together to send to 15AF for approval of a squadron patch. When I looked at the design it said "44th MIMS". I said to myself, 'this can't be right, it just doesn't flow correctly!' I changed it to "44th MMS" and screwed up a generation of patches. I just didn't know at the time that MMS stood for MUNITIONS MAINTENANCE SQUADRON, so when you see this patch it is not MMS (in reality), but MIMS. Even though I felt lower than a snake's belly, everybody was gracious and the erroneous patch went on uniforms anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted December 19, 2016 Share #2 Posted December 19, 2016 Hilarious! Now that is funny! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIMemories Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted December 19, 2016 I will say that my boss cussed for about 30 seconds, busted out laughing then told me 'in the future RTFM!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted December 19, 2016 Share #4 Posted December 19, 2016 Now that is a cool story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fly USMC Posted December 19, 2016 Share #5 Posted December 19, 2016 Confession is good for the soul, .......and sometimes a good laugh as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacksmith Posted December 19, 2016 Share #6 Posted December 19, 2016 Ahhhh, ye olde "RTFM"... Classic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted December 19, 2016 Share #7 Posted December 19, 2016 If I ever see this patch, I'll have to get it and send it to you for you to sign it for me! Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BagmanL6 Posted December 19, 2016 Share #8 Posted December 19, 2016 Reading this reminded me of listening to Paul Harvey ... "Now you know the rest of the story." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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