Bullion Blazer & Beret patches - USN, USMC, USCG

14,991 · May 18, 2019

Aloha Everyone,

Along the way I've picked up several bullion USN blazer patches, mostly made in Hong Kong but also Italian, Japanese, etc. If you have any bullion blazer patches in your collections, lets have a look at them.

USS RANGER (CVA-61) Made by Johnson, Hong Kong

14,991 · May 18, 2019

Mess Management - Bullion Stewards patch made by Johnson, Hong Kong & Kowloon

14,991 · May 18, 2019

Naval Air Station South Weymouth, Mass

Bullion above, NAS South Weymouth patch below

14,991 · May 18, 2019

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) 1960's Italian made Beret from a career aviator (1941-1968) assigned to Sigonella, Italy at that time.

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Bullion patch made by Johnson, Hong Kong

14,991 · June 23, 2019

USS TAUSSIG (DD-746) Three-war Allen M Sumner class in service 1944 to 1970. Taussig earned six battle stars during World War II, eight battle stars during the Korean War, and six battle stars during the Vietnam War.

Bullion patch dated 5 June 1961 made by New Bright Co. of Hong Kong

TAUSSIG's call sign was BROADSWORD

Photo taken during an amphibious landing near the DMZ in 1969.

14,991 · July 30, 2019

USS BRYCE CANYON (AD-36)

Shenandoah class destroyer tender in service 1950 to 1981.

USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36)'s crew man the rail as she enters Pearl Harbor during one of her annual 'circle island tours'

She alternated her service between San Diego and Pearl Harbor until she became the homeport Pearl Harbor destroyer tender from 1969 to 1981. During the 1970's she rarely went to sea (typically once a year around Oahu for a dependants cruise & to qualify for sea pay) and was known as "Building 36 at Bravo Piers". One of the few vessels on which you could collect seapay and be credited with sea duty while tied to the pier for years at a time.

'Building 36 at Bravo Piers', USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, HI., October 1979

14,991 · September 29, 2019

FAIRECONRON ONE (VQ-1) WORLD WATCHERS

14,991 · December 23, 2019

USS CHICAGO (CG-11) In service 1944 to 1980. Built as a WWII Baltimore class heavy cruiser (CA-136) she participated in the raids against the Japanese home islands.

Reclassified as CG-11 and completely rebuilt in 1958-1964 to become a Guided Missile Cruiser, she served five tours of duty in Vietnam from 1966 to 1972 targeting and destroying Migs in the Tonkin Gulf from Yankee Station.

Bullion USS CHICAGO blazer patch

Bullion USS CHICAGO TONKIN GULF blazer patch made by Johnson of Hong Kong

4,394 · January 5, 2020

I'll add China Service.

14,991 · February 9, 2020

Very nice Wharf,

I'll see your bitchen China Service bullion and add

CRUISER-DESTROYER FORCE ATLANTIC FLEET - Versatile Spearhead of Seapower

14,991 · September 18, 2020

USS DOUGLAS (PG-100) Asheville class gunboat in USN service 1971 to 1977. She spent the bulk of her career based in Naples, Italy, as part of a squadron of missile-armed gunboats participating in US and NATO exercises and operations in the Mediterranean. She and the rest of the squadron were decommissioned on 1 October 1977 at Little Creek, Virginia. Also became a Carderock Research Vessel until she was sunk off the coast of North Carolina

Italian made Bullion on Felt

10 December 1976
Genoa, Italy

4,494 · September 21, 2020

Special Services Long Beach Naval Station , these were the people who brought you sports equipment, skating rinks, Base pools and most importantly the Base clubs!

4,494 · September 21, 2020

VR 24 Det Naples Responsible for transporting Naval Personnel in Europe and North Africa

14,991 · March 8, 2021

Those are two very nice Italian made blazer patches Bearmon,

Here's another from my collection

USS ESTES (AGC-12) Mount McKinley class Amphibious Force Command ship in service 1944 to 1969. Constant service in WWII, Korea, Atomic Testing, Arctic Dew Line ops, 'Passage to Freedom', and Vietnam service.

A Vietnamese mother and baby are helped down the gangway of USS Estes (AGC-12), as refugees arrive at Saigon after being evacuated from the North during Operation "Passage to Freedom" in 1954.
US National Archives. Photo # 80-G-647026, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.

Awards

Meritorious Unit Commendation
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two battle stars
World War II Victory Medal
Navy Occupation Medal
China Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal with one star
Korean Service Medal with two battle stars
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Vietnam Service Medal with six campaign stars
United Nations Korea Medal
Philippine Liberation Medal
Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation - 2 awards
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Republic of Korea War Service Medal