I like it, good badge!

Yes, excatly ;) I need it to my Navy A-12 Sextant.        

Hi! I can give you more info on this patch. My father was a part of this unit when he was an Infantryman in the Marines. This unit specifically was the Jungle Operations Branch/Special Operations Branch of "A" Company, Marine Barracks Subic Bay. The Jungle Operations Branch patrolled up to 10 miles outside the Subic Bay Naval Facility in dense jungles and small villages to look for "intruders" (common criminals) trying to steal from the base or gain entry into the base, and members of the New People's Army (NPA) which was a communist insurgency that developed in the southern Philippines in 1968. The Jungle Operations Branch worked in small 3-4 man teams often with a native Filipino. The NPA would also try to set explosives off near the main gate to Subic, and get into the Naval Magazine (which is rumored to have stored nuclear weapons) guarded by Company "B" Marines. Company A guarded Subic's main gate and Mt. Santa Rita, a naval communications tower a couple miles east of Subic. A Company was in charge of Security and the Jungle Operations Branch. Outside of some of the horrific acts committed by the NPA and other terrorists in the region, my dad talks fondly about monkeys in the trees taking their patrol gear and throwing it back at them, all the chow they wanted, the authorization of boonie covers for the unit, access to any weapon in the armory, and suspending from a USAF "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter and talking into a high tech radio headset (I'll have to ask him about this again, but it sounded like something from the Navy Seals movie haha).

Seaman First Class with a Marksmanship badge. 

agreed, that one is NICE!

Another possibility could be, since they were available sold as Sweetheart wings like pictured above its possible some Instructors or Teachers may have decided to give them as graduation gifts / They did develop friendships another letter mentions a teacher inviting them for Christmas dinner                       ;

The problem for me isn’t necessarily putting myself out there, Imm not aloud to sell anything online and that kind of thing. So it’s certainly hard for me to get money and to downsize and shape my collection how I want to. I’ve been wanting to sell some of my stuff here to get a few bucks and to put it towards stuff I actually want. But J can’t do that because I’m not aloud to. And I don’t know anyone In the area that’s really buying that kind of stuff. Anyways, don’t want to steal this thread like I did with “why did you join the service” 🤣  

That’s a good sign, with it be semi warped and burnt like that is a good indicator the insignia is legit.

Very interesting from 11 a/b to Navy! Neat group, wonder way he didn't wear his jump wings.  That would had turned some heads! 

Nice medic uniform! Is it named?