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On 12/30/2020 at 5:55 PM, patches said:

The 1 stands for the 1st Cavalry Regiment in the 7th Cavalry Brigade Mechanized Ft Knox, the 7th Cav Regt Mech did indeed become the 1st Armoed Division in 1940 however, and inherited the units of the brigade.

 

An nice original one up close and personal.

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The "nice original one" up top is a repro. The background color is off, and the numeral is not only the wrong color, but the wrong style.  Below is a period original.

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3 hours ago, tredhed2 said:

The "nice original one" up top is a repro. The background color is off, and the numeral is not only the wrong color, but the wrong style.  Below is a period original.

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Oh Oh, a repro, thanks for pointing that out tred 1983875090_emoticonsmile.png.531a4067b195508419d459f14b6bcbb1.png

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A Doctor of the 8th Army with one of those 8th Army SUPPORT Scrolls gets his temperature taken by Jill St John on the South Korean leg of the 1964 Bob Hope's Christmas Show 1636649250_emoticonsmile.png.dc977b665d0c3f5582852385c73e7383.png

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3 hours ago, patches said:

A Doctor of the 8th Army with one of those 8th Army SUPPORT Scrolls gets his temperature taken by Jill St John on the South Korean leg of the 1964 Bob Hope's Christmas Show 1636649250_emoticonsmile.png.dc977b665d0c3f5582852385c73e7383.png

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On this South Korean segment, it was damn pretty cold right, December right, Jill St John and the actress Janis Paige, who was also in the Troupe. refused to wear their fur coats or GI Parkas when they went on stage to do their act, this so the boys could see them in their elegant dresses. Bob we see is wearing an 8th Army with Scroll on his Pile Cap

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Sp4 Lewis E. Johnson wears the Air Defense Artillery Command SSI when reporting to D/4/562d Artillery at Camp Wolters in July 1959.

Source: The Portal to Texas History

 

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Fort Wolters Army helicopter school patch worn by students examining weapons displayed by a 2nd Armored Division Sergeant.

Source: The Portal to Texas History

 

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Sp4 Kirby F. Smith examining a blue dress uniform received for being selected as Outstanding Soldier of the Quarter for the 4th Army in 1959.  Wearing the Army Aviation Center patch.

Source: The Portal to Texas History

 

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Major General Robert G. Gard sr, commanding general, VIII Corps tours Fort Wolters Reserve units in 1958.

Source: The Portal to Texas History

 

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Soldiers of the Ohio National Guard's Company A 166th Regimental Combat Team wearing the Second Army SSI in 1950 before the various RCT's were authorized their own SSI in the mid-50's. Note one soldier wearing the 101st Airborne Division SSI as a combat patch and another wearing the 97th Infantry Division.

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Soldiers of the Ohio National Guard's 166th Regimental Combat Team wearing various SSI over the years.

 

The first photo shows members of Company L wearing the Army Ground Forces SSI in 1949.

 

The second photo shows members of Company A wearing the Second Army SSI. Note one soldier wearing the 101st Airborne Division SSI as a combat patch and another wearing the 97th Infantry Division.

 

The third photo shows members of Company I wearing the SSI recently approved for the RCT in 1959. 

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Interesting to see the Army Ground Forces SSI!  The one picture I've ever found that shows a decently clear image of a 197th RCT member with a patch it was Army Ground Forces.

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Here's another photo of the 166th Regimental Combat Team SSI being worn by members of the unit's Tank Company in 1955. It may just be the photo itself, but the patches look like current desert subdued patches embroidered with brown or olive green thread on khaki cloth. They almost seem to match the chevrons. Compare the hues with those on the 3rd Infantry Division combat patch.

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These soldiers of the Service Company of the 166th Regimental Combat Team are wearing Second Army SSI during their 1954 summer camp. So it would appear the switch to the newly approved 166th RCT SSI occurred between the summer of 1954 and the summer of 1955.

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Colonel Donald Yoder, commanding officer at Fort Huachuca, Arizona wearing the Army Communications Command SSI and DUI in 1980, the year of his retirement. What I find interesting is that he is a three war veteran, an Infantry officer and a two time recipient of the Combat Infantryman Badge, yet he is commanding an installation primarily dedicated to Signal Corps and Military Intelligence activities.

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Brigadier General Albert Stubblebine III, commanding officer at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, wearing the Military Intelligence Center and School SSI and DUI.

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Criminal Investigation Command SSI worn by a warrant officer with former enlisted service. What is interesting is that he is wearing the Combat Infantryman Badge and South Vietnamese jump wings but not U.S. jump wings. He served with MACV in Vietnam as an advisor and his togetherweserved.com profile also shows he was assigned to the Vietnamese Airborne School in 1966. I know that RVN wings could be awarded honorarily without the individual actually having jumped with a Vietnamese unit, but would they have been awarded that way to someone who had not qualified for U.S. jump wings? In the alternative, is it possible he jumped with a Vietnamese unit to earn the wings without ever qualifying for the American equivalent?  

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18 hours ago, seanmc1114 said:

Brigadier General Frederick R. Stofft wearing the SSI of the 158th Regimental Combat Team around 1960.

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Wouldn't photo more than likely be from the summer of 1958 say as the 158th RCT is inactivated as it were and is reorganized under CARS as the plain old 158th Infantry Regiment 1 March 1959??? with it's battalions becoming Battle Groups,, with the commanders now being full colonels. Smith's Post War patches book states this patch was authorized to be worn by the 258th Infantry Brigade in 1966, and then by it's successor unit the 258th Military Police Brigade when that unit was formed.

 

 

Stofft appears to have been the C.O. of the 127th Infantry 32nd Infantry Division in WWII

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2 hours ago, patches said:

Wouldn't photo more than likely be from the summer of 1958 say as the 158th RCT is inactivated as it were and is reorganized under CARS as the plain old 158th Infantry Regiment 1 March 1959??? with it's battalions becoming Battle Groups,, with the commanders now being full colonels. Smith's Post War patches book states this patch was authorized to be worn by the 258th Infantry Brigade in 1966, and then by it's successor unit the 258th Military Police Brigade when that unit was formed.

 

 

Stofft appears to have been the C.O. of the 127th Infantry 32nd Infantry Division in WWII

Yeah, I'm not too sure about the accuracy of many of the dates on the recent photos I've been posting from the Arizona archives. Googling Stofft's name brings up this link that indicates he commanded the 2nd Battalion 158th Infantry in the South Pacific in World War II. The regiment had been assigned to the 45th Infantry Division when it was federalized in 1940 but was detached from the division in 1941 and sent to Panama for jungle training. I assume this occurred when each of the old pre-WWII square infantry divisions was triangularized and had one of their four infantry regiments detached. Many of these regiments operated as independent units apart from their old commands. 

 

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This article from the July 1965 National Guardsman magazine indicates Stofft had in fact commanded the 158th RCT and later the 258th Infantry Brigade. The article implies that the SSI in the photo identified the 258th Brigade as he was a brigadier general at the time. 

 

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A soldier in World War II wearing the Second Army SSI with the DUI of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment on his cap. He was killed in action in May 1945 in Czechoslovakia. The unit began the war as the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and was redesignated as the 2nd Mechanized Cavalry Group and sent to Europe where it landed in Normandy in July 1944 and saw extensive combat across France, Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia.  

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