seanmc1114 Posted December 29, 2019 Share #4301 Posted December 29, 2019 Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne during the 75th Anniversary commemoration of the Battle Of The Bulge. All are wearing full color 101st Airborne SSI and at least one is wearing the full color SAPPER tab. Note that all of the soldiers are wearing the U.S. Army beret flash rather than the flashes authorized for their respective units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted December 29, 2019 Share #4302 Posted December 29, 2019 Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division wearing full color SSI and combat patches during ceremonies commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Normandy invasion in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted December 29, 2019 Share #4303 Posted December 29, 2019 Members of the 5th Special Forces Group recently wore tiger stripe uniforms and full color SSI during a training exercise at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/gearscout/irons/2019/09/04/5th-special-forces-group-just-went-old-school-with-their-uniforms-during-a-training-exercise/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4304 Posted December 30, 2019 Threefer from the mid-late 82-84 period, all from West Germany based units. 93rd Signal Brigade. 41st Field Artillery Brigade. 160th Signal Brigade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4305 Posted December 30, 2019 And this WWII WAC of the Washington District summer of 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4306 Posted December 30, 2019 And finally for tonight, a English Coffee 1st Infantry Division patch worn by Col Fredrick W.Gibb C.O of the 16th Infantry, probably taken after V-E Day, Gibbs took over command of the 16th Infantry from Col George A. Taylor like in July of 44, prior to this he was the 3rd Battalion Skipper in Africa and Sicily, then after Sicily, kicked upstairs as a staff officer, Divisional G-3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4307 Posted December 30, 2019 U.S. Army Alaska with AIRBORNE tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atb Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4308 Posted December 30, 2019 Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne during the 75th Anniversary commemoration of the Battle Of The Bulge. All are wearing full color 101st Airborne SSI and at least one is wearing the full color SAPPER tab. Note that all of the soldiers are wearing the U.S. Army beret flash rather than the flashes authorized for their respective units. Those look like one piece 101st ABN DIV SSI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4309 Posted December 30, 2019 U.S. Army Alaska with AIRBORNE tab Got a unit on this Sean? Tyring to figuge what jump units were up there prior to the activation of those two separate brigades in 63. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysteriousoozlefinch Posted December 30, 2019 Share #4310 Posted December 30, 2019 Got a unit on this Sean? Tyring to figuge what jump units were up there prior to the activation of those two separate brigades in 63. Company F (Airborne), 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry was active in Alaska from 1962. Link that hopefully works: https://books.google.com/books?id=EPLNKZhnPzMC&lpg=PA97&ots=Y3fQUSwJoN&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false From the same publication, what I think is the 172nd Infantry Brigade shoulder patch on an M114 crewman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 31, 2019 Share #4311 Posted December 31, 2019 Company F (Airborne), 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry was active in Alaska from 1962. Link that hopefully works: https://books.google.com/books?id=EPLNKZhnPzMC&lpg=PA97&ots=Y3fQUSwJoN&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false From the same publication, what I think is the 172nd Infantry Brigade shoulder patch on an M114 crewman. Company F (Airborne), 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry, never seen that mentioned before wow. This from the 23rd Infantry's Wiki Redesignated 1963 Company F, 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry organized as Airborne infantry, earning nickname "Fearless Foxes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted December 31, 2019 Share #4312 Posted December 31, 2019 On the left is the approved SSI for the Security Force Assistance Command with ADVISOR tab which is worn by the members of the various Security Force Assistance Brigades, with each brigade having a distinct DUI. On the right is a soldier from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade wearing the original style of SSI for the unit with COMBAT ADVISOR tab. The same SSI was also worn with an ADVISE-ASSIST tab. I believe this SSI was actually approved by the Institute of Heraldry but later redesigned to the current design because of outcry from Special Forces soldiers who complained it too closely resembled the 1st Special Forces SSI. I think these early versions were privately manufactured and sold in military clothing stores outside Fort Benning before being withdrawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4313 Posted January 1, 2020 A DS of the 76th Training Division circa 1976. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4314 Posted January 1, 2020 2nd Service Corps WACs, I think Fort Wadsworth Staten Island NY NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4315 Posted January 1, 2020 A T/5 of the 813th Signal Service Company, which apparently was directly subordinate to The Twelfth United States Army Group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4316 Posted January 1, 2020 1st Log Cmd and MACV patches in 1966 of two members of the 765th Security Platoon, Vung Tau, not much on this unit, Stanton doesn't list Security Platoons in his OOB Vietnam. However if you google the unit images, nothing really at all, but you'll see one of their original liners, an SG liner with band and unit number on one side and 1st Log Cmd patch on the other,. Not 100% sure, but the 765th Security Platoon may of been an Infantry unit, with 11Bs,the Sergeant E-5 on the right seems to wear a CIB,, this maybe indicating it was a Infantry Unit? The one with the MACV combat patch is wearing this maybe cause in 1965 MACV originally commanded and controlled units that would be assigned to the 1st Log Cmd when that unit arrived in country in 1966. These two GIs are in fact volunteers to the Australian RAAF Squadron No 9, who needed door gunners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4317 Posted January 1, 2020 A Occupation period 1st Cav 8th Cav GI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4318 Posted January 1, 2020 And a trainee of the 5th Infantry Division when it was a training division at Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania during the Korean War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4319 Posted January 1, 2020 The Penna 213th Area Support Group and State Area Command patch as both an ORG and Combat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rats of Tobruk Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4320 Posted January 1, 2020 Military District Of Washington with Honor Guard tab worn by members of the 3rd Infantry Regiment Old Guard while serving as adevisers in Djibouti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4321 Posted January 1, 2020 A rare sighting, a 50s Reservist Master Sarge of the 95th Infantry Division when it was still a combat infantry division of the reserve in the summer of 1955, it is downgraded and reorganized as a training division in 1958. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rats of Tobruk Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4322 Posted January 1, 2020 9th Infantry Division while assigned to the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula in 1989. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4323 Posted January 1, 2020 A 50s Reservist Master Sarge of the 95th Infantry Division when it was still a combat infantry division of the reserve in the summer of 1955, it is downgraded and reorganized as a training division in 1958. A rare sighting, a 50s Reservist Master Sarge of the 95th Infantry Division when it was still a combat infantry division of the reserve in the summer of 1955, it is downgraded and reorganized as a training division in 1958. hyt.JPG WHOOPS Sen Seanmc1114 posted this one before, my error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rats of Tobruk Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4324 Posted January 1, 2020 https://nara.getarchive.net/media/us-army-soldiers-from-a-battery-1st-battalion-278th-regimental-combat-team-16edd1 U.S. Army Soldiers from A Battery, 1ST Battalion, 278th Regimental Combat Team, 1ST Infantry Division, listen to an operation and safety briefing before a combat patrol on Dec. 31, 2004, from Forward Operating Base Caldwell, Kirkush, Iraq. (USAF PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Shane A. Cuomo) (Released). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 1, 2020 Share #4325 Posted January 1, 2020 A Communications/ Intelligence Specialist in MACV 1968, he's wearing the standard fatigues rather then the tropical fatigues, a U.S. made MACV on "Twill" but what looks like In Country made Spec 5 ranks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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