Patches in action: Photos of SSI being worn by the troops.

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Washington National Guard with a RECRUITING tab that looks like it belongs with a Recruiting Command SSI. Also note that he is wearing Infantry branch insignia and leadership tabs with his DUI's.  

 

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U.S. Army Service Forces, photo real interesting, one that would be taken sometime in 1946-48, as we see Collar Discs on the OD Wool Shirt, and Large stripes still,  taken on a Ship, but where, on they're way Overseas????

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With the Red Diamond Division Fort Carson early 1969, still armed with M14s we see, a 1st division and 9th Division vet there we see too.

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4th Ranger Battalion

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Idaho National Guard

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OCS graduate of the Texas National Guard in 1982. It looks like she's wearing lieutenant bars and an officer's U.S. insignia on her right lapel and an enlisted U.S. disc on her left lapel along with an officer's cap device on her beret.

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Col. Richard J. Davis, an Infantry officer who commands the 177th Armored Brigade, an active component/Reserve component unit assigned to the First Army Division (East) and tasked with training Reserve and National Guard units Note he is wearing the First Army SSI, including a full color version on his ACU. The 177th is one of several separate brigades that have their own authorized SSI but are assigned to the First Army Divisions (East) and (West) and wear the First Army SSI rather thena their brigade SSI. I have never seen an explanation as to why that is. The 177th actually has no armored components and derives its lineage from the 177th Infantry Brigade of the old square 89th Infantry Division.

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Newly approved subdued Recruiting Command SSI with inverted colors along with an example of the old version for comparison 

 

https://recruiting.army.mil/News/Article/2310420/recruiter-to-make-usarec-history-with-new-patch-design/

 

 

 

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Artillerymen of the 324th Field Artillery Battalion 83rd Infantry Division in World War II wearing odd shoulder cords.

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8 hours ago, seanmc1114 said:

Artillerymen of the 324th Field Artillery Battalion 83rd Infantry Division in World War II wearing odd shoulder cords.

I knew I seen this Cord before, this must of been a Ohio Division thing, cause another member Wally6 posted this.

 

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Ft Hood a few months ago in November 2021.

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Two photos of the legendary Frank Lillyman post war, he switched from Infantry to Military Police.

 

In the 101st Training Division at Cp Breckenridge, No tab on the 101 patch.

 

And in an MP unit under 2nd Army at one of those Posts in Virginia or Maryland.

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USA Armor Center SSI worn by a jump qualified Command Sergeant Major wearing the Airborne patch on his overseas cap. I'm not sure of the date of the photo but you can see he is wearing the ribbon of the Vietnam Campaign Medal. But notice he is also wearing a fourragere which, unless it was authorized for his current training unit of assignment at Fort Knox, would indicate World War II service. I can't make out most of his other ribbons, but there are seven ribbons between his Good Conduct Medal and the RVN Campaign Medal, so he may be a three war veteran.

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On 3/19/2022 at 10:43 AM, seanmc1114 said:

Artillerymen of the 324th Field Artillery Battalion 83rd Infantry Division in World War II wearing odd shoulder cords.

Not sure they are called "shoulder cords". They look more like "distinctive trimmings" - the buff and black worn by the 3rd Infantry Regt.

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10 hours ago, tredhed2 said:

Not sure they are called "shoulder cords". They look more like "distinctive trimmings" - the buff and black worn by the 3rd Infantry Regt.

Yes Cords is definitely the wrong term, I don't know what to call them LOL.

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LTC Neil Creighton, CO of the 3rd Squadron 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, wearing a crude theater made subdued SSI.

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Pathfinder of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam wearing a full color 101st SSI and RANGER tab on duck hunter camouflage fatigues.

 

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22 hours ago, patches said:

Yes Cords is definitely the wrong term, I don't know what to call them LOL.

How about Ribbons???

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General Robert B. Abrams wearing the United Nations Command SSI in South Korea in 2021.

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General Paul LaCamera, successor to General Robert Abrams in the previous photo. But notice General LaCamera is wearing the U.S. Forces Korea SSI. His wikipedia entry says he has been serving as commander of the United Nations Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea since July 2, 2021. If he simultaneously commands those separate commands, I guess he can wear the SSI of any of them. Would that be correct?

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The first photo show Commander of the Combined Forces Command Gen. Vincent K. Brooks wearing the SSI of the Combined Forces Command on June 13, 2017. 

 

The second photo shows General Brooks wearing the U.S. Forces Korea SSI. 

[Ranger-1972]

On 3/24/2022 at 8:33 AM, seanmc1114 said:

LTC Neil Creighton, CO of the 3rd Squadron 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, wearing a crude theater made subdued SSI.

Creighton went on to become a Brigadier General and Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division (FWD) headquartered at Cooke Barracks in Göppingen, Germany (1980-82), before being promoted to Major General and becoming the Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division at Ft Riley, KS (1982-84).  He was a graduate of West Point (1953), the University of Madrid, Spain, and got his MA from Middlebury College, VT. He served in Armored Cavalry Regiments along the inter-German border as a platoon leader and troop commander during the Cold War, taught Spanish at USMA from 1960-63, and commanded at every level from platoon to division. In addition to commanding 3d Squadron/11 Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam in 1968 (during the Tet Offensive, where he earned the Silver Star for Valor), a brigade in the 3rd ID (M) in Germany in 1974-75, the 1st ID (FWD) in 1980-82, and the 1st ID(M) from 1982-84, he was Military Assistant, Office of the Secretary of the Army; Deputy Director of Operations and Readiness on the Army Staff; Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior U.S. Officer at Headquarters, Allied Forces, Central Europe; and Director of the Inter-American Region in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.  He retired in 1984 and had an active post-Army career, before passing away on 15 Sept 2020.  Here is a photo of MG Creighton as CG, 1st ID(M), wearing the 11th ACR patch on his right sleeve.

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Here's one for youse, The CBI patch sewn to a Civvy Ladies Coat as worn by Jinx Falkenburg, she's just getting back home after a USO gig of China and India  .

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1LT Virginia Russell Reavis, air evacuation nurse who served in the 810th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron from 1942 to the end of the war, wearing the Airborne Troop Transport Command SSI.  Notice she has an Air Medal (created in May 1942) and a couple of campaign stars on her ETO ribbon.  She met the man she later (1947) married, who was piloting a C-47 on which she was the flight nurse. She also survived the crash shortly after takeoff of a medical transport plane (second photo is that plane crash).  She lived to age 100.

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Army Material Command and a U.S. Army Special Operations Command Combat patch at that most obscure of posts, The Tobyhanna Army Depot Pennsylvania.