your favorite military patch

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

Working with various military groups I have seen a few patches. My favorite is for Task Force Troy:

The VX-31 Naval Weapons Test Squadron is pretty cool too

Embraer · Embraer's Garage

I always like the Friday patches for ENJJPT and the likes.....

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

That last one could be easily misconstrued

Embraer · Embraer's Garage

kevin993 · 04-24-2009, 07:34 PM

Those are outstanding. Here's two of my favorite (probably has more to do with the bird than the patch, but oh well...)

varmint · 04-24-2009, 07:47 PM

5 points for anybody who knows what these guys flew.

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m21sniper · 09:22 PM

slodave · slodave's Garage

I don't really have a favorite, but these are what my neighbor wore during WWII.

I'm not sure which one he actually wore, my guess is the first one.

Their nickname: "THE REICH WRECKERS"

Trivia:
First man in 8th Bomber Command to complete a tour (T/Sgt M. Roscovich: 5th April 1943).
367BS had heaviest losses in 8th Bomber Command between October 1942 and August 1943.
Oldest operational bomb group in 8th Air Force.
Stationed in England, and at one base, longer than any other group.
369BS flew for over six months in 1943 without loss.

rcecale · rcecale's Garage

Just like a Porsche..."There is no substitute"

Our history

In MY Marine Corps, NOBODY did it better! 'nuff said!

Randy

afterburn 549 · 04-24-2009, 10:33 PM

Mine

pwd72s · 04-24-2009, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by m21sniper

The one in the middle is my favorite...there's this old guy who comes into my favorite pool hall...wears a giant "screaming Eagle" patch on the back of his jacket. Name Don Malarkey...Sgt. Don Malarkey.

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

have a couple lying around somewhere.. one is a Jolly Rogers Triangle and another black triangle, with a silver Tomcat pointing up, with "absolute fighter" wirtten below..

Another is from the Tomcat Sunset association , with the cat, saying "last time baby!!"

but can't find em right now...

Won · 04-25-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by pwd72s

The one in the middle is my favorite...there's this old guy who comes into my favorite pool hall...wears a giant "screaming Eagle" patch on the back of his jacket. Name Don Malarkey...Sgt. Don Malarkey.

Don Malarkey as in Band of Brothers? That's neat!

afterburn 549 · 04-25-2009, 04:14 PM

I think SGT. Barry Sadler was a patch all America wore for awhile (Ballad of the Green Barrett)

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

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Originally Posted by kevin993

Those are outstanding. Here's two of my favorite (probably has more to do with the bird than the patch, but oh well...)

When I was on Okinawa ('84-'85) they called the SR-71 the "Habu".

pwd72s · 04-25-2009, 04:51 PM

[QUOTE=Won;4627958]Don Malarkey as in Band of Brothers? That's neat!

One and the same...not the actor who played him, but the real deal.

Super_Dave_D · Super_Dave_D's Garage

Dont forget this one, simple yet powerful!

Eric Coffey · 04-25-2009, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Won

That's a good one (509th Bombers). Translation for "Gustatus Similis Pullus" is "Tastes Like Chicken".

I've always liked this one too (22nd Airlift):

These are the C-5 drivers that transpo'd "classified" aircraft to/from test facilities. the "NOYFB" acronym should be self-explanatory!

kevin993 · 04-25-2009, 09:05 PM

http://www.habu.org/what-is-habu.html

A habu (pronounced "hah-BOO") is a venomous snake found in southeast Asia (Japan, Phillipines, Taiwan, southeast China).

Habus are pit vipers, more closely related to the adder than to any species of North American snake. The actual "habu" (Trimeresurus flavoviridis) is relatively small, not usually getting longer than 5 feet. They are not typically aggressive but will bite if provoked. They are not as deadly as cobras or mambas, but are more much more dangerous than most North American venomous snakes. There are almost a dozen species of habu; the variety native to Okinawa (Trimeresurus okinavensis) is supposedly greenish or greenish-yellow; however, all habus are extremely rare in North America (less than a dozen specimens in all zoos combined) and photographs are very hard to come by.

When the A-12s (and later the SR-71s) were first flown to their new remote base at Kadena AFB in Okinawa, the local people thought that this strange and somewhat wicked-looking airplane was shaped like the habu snake. They started calling it the habu airplane, and later just habu. Crews who flew the airplane were also called Habu, and the name came to be recognized with the blackbird program and even incorporated into the insignia worn by the crews on their uniforms.

The HABU patch was only awarded to crews who had flown operational sorties. Over time HABU has come to be associated with all blackbird pilots and crews, but in the truest sense of the word, it represents only those who flew operational sorties.