Obscure military patch

There were also Trumpet Majors and Drum Corporals, so we can only assume that there was a heavy lean on music at this time. The instrument-based ranks lasted until and then were kicked to the curb for a more streamlined rank system. Military ranks from the s. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Today many branches have Warrant Officers, but the Air Force is not one of them. As their structure deviated from its original Army setup, they added higher enlisted ranks that no longer limited pilots to jobs or pay structures.

For all of its changes over the years, many causes can be attributed to changing rank systems. One of the biggest causes to the confusion of ranks were how the military got its start — unorganized, thrown together, and fighting Britain, a superpower.

Over time, ranks were reevaluated, added or removed as they made sense to the branch itself. Who is this creepier dude within an already creepy dude? At least I can relate to that. But in the context of this patch, it is definitely creepy. Try it and this knight might slash your head off. It would probably be useless anyhow. They are the true leaders in the world of Cybersecurity. The man with the sword is in the distinct dress of a Knight Templar, this ancient group of Crusaders that became an occult secret society.

The Knight represents the descendants of the Templars, the modern Illuminatus. This is another mysterious patch of the NRO. The program associated with this patch is totally unknown. All we know is that it is represented by three menacing vipers wrapped around the earth, making us all warm and fuzzy inside. We may never know. You know that a mission is top-secret when not even an obscure symbol can be used to represent it. Furthermore, there is a twist on the phrase.

According to Paglen, the Latin phrase is worded in a peculiar way in order to refer to Greek and Roman texts. Three years after beginning their assault, the Roman army overran Carthage, tore down its walls, and sold its inhabitants into slavery. After the Roman Senate declared that no one would ever again live where the city had stood, legend holds that Rome salted the earth around the city in order to ensure that Carthage would remain a wasteland.

The Minotaur program is composed of top-secret NRO spy-satellite launching missions. Minotaurs are bull-headed creatures from Greek mythology that are always angry, violent and merciless.

Minotaurs bear many resemblances to the Middle-Eastern deity Molech, a bull-headed god with the body of a man to whom child sacrifices were made. In this patch for NROL, the red Minotaur as if hailing directly from hell is holding a street sign of the mythical route Most wore the later MACV patch. Because of a shortage of Catholic Chaplains he had been recalled to duty.

Although an O-6 Colonel, he was not considered the "senior chaplain" Some of the "old Guard" were deployed to the horn of Africa around that's from my memory, so don't hold me to it. Here is a topic I started on this same patch after I saw a soldier wearing this as a combat patch:. I thought it was odd at the time but like you learned that units of the Old Guard had deployed to Africa.

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Andrei Posted January 28, Posted January 28, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Is is possible that it could be the st AU? Posted January 29, A Close up of the patch. I assume this one would fit in this new thread. Secretary of War Stimson made the presentation in Washington D. Prior to his enlistment, Rubin was a page boy for the Columbia Broadcasting System. Rubin is leaning against a pillar, dressed in his military uniform.

Date Created:. Interesting in more ways then one, like the "the presidential citation as an individual award". Hey maybe that patch is heretofore undocumented War Bonds patch??? I found that Presidential Unit citation part strange also. But civilian newspapers dont alway get everything right. Maybe the patch is a war bond drive patch but I have never seen any version of those patches worn on active Duty uniforms.

Note this soldier is also wearing a subdued Ram's Head Badge awarded for completion of the U. It may just be the lighting, but this Central Command combat patch appears to be a desert subdued version rather than a full color version. It is also reversed. Note the orientation of the leaves. The patch exists in color also but I have never seen it in use, If anyone has a picture of the color version in use please post.

Current assignees of the st were still wearing the full color patch at this time, but the wear of full color combat patches had long been against regulations. Not only are they still wearing the steel pot rather then the Fritz as this somewhat late date, both are wearing the leaf patterrn covers as well, not the woodland.