Any help would be appreciated, patch is about 3 x 3 inches and is on a 1977 G1 jacket. Google lens has not brought up anything  

Nice set up. I would like to get a battle station alarm. Being Boatswain mate of the watch on the bridge blowing the boatswain pipe and saying battle stations and hitting that switch for the alarm to go off was a blast even though most of the time it was just training.

When I got this watch, I notice a few things. It had the wrong second hand and was missing the dust cover. For some reason I could not see the Hamilton reprint stamp make on the dial. Someone at another forum thought it might be something funny with the dial. Well, when the watch was getting service and the correct hand was getting put on the lume fell off so my watchmaker had to relume it and sent me a photo of it. Clear as day the Hamilton mark. It was also missing a Hamilton dust cover I bought a parts Hamilton on eBay just for the correct dust cover. Should get it back next week. That wrong second hand bothered me glad to have it corrected.

That was one bored soldier! 

. Go with your memory and thoughts above what you see. !!!!!   A couple of nights ago I watched Spielbergs movie ' Munich released in 2005 ' I almost thought it was quite prophetic at the end of the movie to see the twin towers when the two lead characters meet in New York behind them is the New York skyline. I wondered how could this be the film showing the towers in place during filming in  2005, when the towers were actually destroyed in 2001.  I did a google search and Spielberg had deliberately had the twin towers  ' painted ' into the skyline as the story was set in the late 1970's.     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 25 April  2O26.   ..

Estate sales mostly, one from an auction and one from Facebook market place. Enjoy your weekend as well

The view is quite nice as long as you don’t look directly down into a small business yard. But look up a little and there is a great view of my beloved San Jose Sharks NHL hockey stadium which is nearby. It’s been a rough past 8 seasons, but we are sure to be Stanley Cup bound next year! No, really!  mikie

Its a very nice legitimate 1895 Officers cap purchased by a state militia (i.e. state national guard) officer. By the 1890's the uniform regulations of many state units conformed to those of the US Army. The one distinct change some states made was the use of buttons with their state seal on them - to distinguish them from the regular army. Officers generally all were required to purchase their own uniforms. Uniform companies were big business in the day, catering to the army, navy, national guards, military schools, police, lighthouse men, bands, fraternal organizations, medical organizations, maritime companies and so on. 

Im not a specialist on PH engraving but I’ve had a few and I agree that I’ve never seen anything like it.   Those branches coming off the S are they actually engraved or did the gold finish chip off?    I don’t know if it’s just the picture or if blackened finish looks unusually black and not tarnished.