Mystery US Army Patch

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2003-11-24 02:21pm

Can anyone tell me what does this patch present? Is it an actual unit or more like MACV-SOG patch made for SOG veterans after Vietnam War?

Link to the Patch

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-24 02:26pm

It's the badge of the 101st airborne, IIRC. Marines in the US also use that slogan I think.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-11-24 02:53pm

It might be some Ranger Patch aswell. Sometimes when elements of full units are assigned to divisions they make new patches. I'm not sure either.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-11-24 02:55pm

The patch in that link is one of those jacket patches that tough guys who recently graduated from Jump School buy at Benning to make themselves look macho. It belongs to no unit of which I'm aware. The following is the patch for the 101st Airborne (Air Assault):

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-24 02:59pm

jegs2 wrote:The patch in that link is one of those jacket patches that tough guys who recently graduated from Jump School buy at Benning to make themselves look macho. It belongs to no unit of which I'm aware. The following is the patch for the 101st Airborne (Air Assault):

That explains why I got all sorts of weird results on a search. I thought it didn't look like 101st Airbornes true one. I take it real pros don't have this patch then.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-11-24 03:03pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:That explains why I got all sorts of weird results on a search. I thought it didn't look like 101st Airbornes true one. I take it real pros don't have this patch then.

Have seen patches like it on the young kids who've recently graduated from Basic Combat Training or perhaps Jump School at Ft. Benning. They'll also sometimes plaster their vehicles with Paratrooper or "Death from Above" stickers. Some folks like to record their entire 201 File on their bodies, jackets and vehicles. As for the patch in question, it looks like one of those "Me Bad" patches you can get in nearly any PX patch booth.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-11-24 03:04pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
That explains why I got all sorts of weird results on a search. I thought it didn't look like 101st Airbornes true one. I take it real pros don't have this patch then.

Most US Army unit patches don't have writing, and those few that do generally only have one or two words.

For anyone interested in other current US Army unit patches, you can find most of them off this page.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2003-11-25 12:45am

*points to avatar*

I'm a proud member of the 35th Infantry Division.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-25 07:49am

My old patch. Ph34r the All-Seeing eye!!!!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-25 08:05am

Pfft, make that eye a FLAMING SERPENTINE one and we'll talk.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-11-25 04:08pm

Chardok wrote: My old patch. Ph34r the All-Seeing eye!!!!

That looks suspiciously like a firing range target minus a few of the outer rings.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2003-11-25 06:18pm

Maybe it is a firing range target? The one worn on the head? That makes me think Chardok has/had something to do with boot camps...working on shooting range?

And thanks for the reply's, they were really helpful.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-25 06:33pm

First Corps, people! First corps! If i'm not mistaken, our resident company commander wears the same patch on his left shoulder.

(It's also called Eye-corps, for obvious multiple reasons)

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-11-25 09:04pm

Chardok wrote:First Corps, people! First corps! If i'm not mistaken, our resident company commander wears the same patch on his left shoulder.

That is indeed the I Corps patch, which my wife and I call the "fish eye" patch.

This is the patch I wear:

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2003-11-26 12:31am

jegs2 wrote:
Chardok wrote:First Corps, people! First corps! If i'm not mistaken, our resident company commander wears the same patch on his left shoulder.
That is indeed the I Corps patch, which my wife and I call the "fish eye" patch.

This is the patch I wear:

Tropic Lightning! Hooah!

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-11-29 04:50pm

And the patch I wear...

Oh, wait, the Navy doesn't wear silly patches.

But, way back when when I was a young'un, we had the FLNG Explorers, with which we wore the patch of the unit we worked with. And that unit was this:

The 53rd Infantry Brigade

They're a Seperate Brigade too, which makes 'em a "mini-Division" or somesuch, and I've seen a bunch of 'em in news reports from Iraq.