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Post by Mark O on Jan 22, 2024 11:43:51 GMT 9
Was poking around on the intertubes, and found these anniversary patches from the 71st, 94th, and 194th Fighter Squadrons. Kind of neat they have little representations of all their old aircraft including the F-106! Mark O
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 23, 2024 2:55:10 GMT 9
Mark, I remember back when I was active duty almost all USAF Patches were in normal color. Then desert storm and BDU happened and they went with subdued colored patches. Lately I have been seeing a lot of aircrew flight suits and colored patches again. I guess the old saying what goes around, comes around is true. I also believe that without the knowledge of history we are apt to repeat it. Some things are better left alone.
PS, my Instructor Badge was from old Air Training Command ATC.
Lorin
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Post by Mark O on Jan 23, 2024 3:26:10 GMT 9
As far as my days in the USAF we always wore full color patches on our flight suits unless we were wearing the tan/desert flight suits, and even then the American flag was still full color. We did not wear our other patches -- including our wings/name patch -- when we flew combat missions; only the US Flag patch. (We would exchange our patches for a numbered blood chit before each mission. We always flew with the same number.) They still do it that way as far as I know. The only guys I ever saw wearing subdued patches on their green flight suits were the Special Operations bubbas. (But, they are weird anyway!) Those patches are heritage-type patches, and we had some as well when I was an FE. In my squadron (40th Airlift Sq.) we wore a reproduction of the WWII insignia from the 40th Troop Carrier Squadron. Of course, we were only allowed to wear it on Fridays, and never if we were TDY, or deployed. Mark O
Me during a brief stop in Amman, Jordan during a combat mission in 2010. Just wearing the US Flag. (I carried my blood chit in my sleeve pocket. BTW, I still have that belt, and holster! Never cared for the M9 pistol we were issued, however.)
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