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Posted: 1/13/2002 11:21:23 AM EDT

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Ummm Bear...is my monitor's chroma off or is that patch really pink, purple and turquoise?

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LOL! Well, the pink is more of a reddish burgundy and the turquoise is more greenish aqua, but you're right about the purple. That patch came out at the same time we switched to "subdued" fatigues, from a blue tape with white letters to a OD tape with dark blue letters. There was talk about switching to BDUs but that didn't happen until after I got out.

Posted: 1/13/2002 11:39:57 AM EDT

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[img]http://www.187thahc.net/patches/images/ratpatchart.jpg[/img]

One 'Mean Mouse'...tecnically it's a 'Gun' platoon pocket patch
Gib

Posted: 1/13/2002 12:03:05 PM EDT

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The way i under stand it the First Cav, realy screwed up in Nam. Do you rember the movie Hamburger Hill? Well that is what i was told. I served with 2nd AD. and the story was thay lost there colors in Nam. Can anyone tell us the true story.
Falcon out.

Posted: 1/13/2002 12:22:36 PM EDT

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[img]http://www.uticaweb.com/blackhorse/graphics/patch.jpg[/img]

Posted: 1/13/2002 12:47:43 PM EDT

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not a patch but a pin and my affiliated unit...A/38 FA Korea ...its just one battery not a batalion and its symbol look like a beer stein without a handle and some stars...it was a shield with smoke and stars and our motto was...Steel behind the ROK....or as we like to say "First behind the rock"

Posted: 1/13/2002 12:53:25 PM EDT

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"Presidents Hundred" Tab.

It's senior to both Special Forces and Ranger Tabs. Much more scarce, and there are only a few, maybe 10, new ones awarded each year.
Less than 50 Active Duty soldiers wear it. Maybe 75 in the Reserves.
Marines, of course, do not wear it.

It looks like hell on dress uniforms.

Lew

Posted: 1/13/2002 2:49:02 PM EDT

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Berlin Brigade...

but I'm prejudiced.

[img]http://www.nvo.org/library/lib18a/M906.GIF[/img]

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You don't drive a jeep do ya?

Posted: 1/13/2002 4:35:47 PM EDT

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The way i under stand it the First Cav, realy screwed up in Nam. Do you rember the movie Hamburger Hill? Well that is what i was told. I served with 2nd AD. and the story was thay lost there colors in Nam. Can anyone tell us the true story.
Falcon out.

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Not quite. The 1st Cav lost their Division colors in Korea, at the start of the war, when it was basically just them and the 24th against the whole NKPA.

As punishment for their perceived sins, the Division stayed in Korea until 1965, when they basically swapped colors with the 2d ID and te 11th Air Assault Division (Test), which was en route to Vietnam. The 11th (and elements of the 2d, which was the unit at Benning) became the 1st Cav, the 11th was deactivated, and the !st Cav units in Korea became the 2d ID.

By all accounts, 1st Cav did a great job in Vietnam. As another 2 AD vet, though, I have to admit that the Cav really sucked in the 80s and 90s, based on my personal observations.

Posted: 1/13/2002 5:05:37 PM EDT

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101st -- AKA the "Chicken Men."

Posted: 1/13/2002 5:53:23 PM EDT

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I understand the Air Cav fired on there owen men? I am sure it was a mistake. I have heard this many times about the First Cav when i was at Fort Hood.

Posted: 1/13/2002 6:17:22 PM EDT

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I liked wearing my Blackhorse patch a lot better than the funny looking one they gave me in the 24th INF. They had special ones made for the right shoulder that faced forward also.

Posted: 1/13/2002 8:08:25 PM EDT

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I was one of the "Dodge Boys" (Fifth Corps, Europe) and I wore a "Rail Splitter"(Reserve)

I'll see if I can dig up the patches

Posted: 1/13/2002 8:35:50 PM EDT

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I am at work and have no way of posting mine or the one that I love the most:

AA - 82nd Airborne Division

Posted: 1/14/2002 11:26:15 AM EDT

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The Vietnamese say "Chicken Men" with respect, and so do I.

And to all American fighting men:
Even if your unit didn't get a "cool" patch, thank you for your service.

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"Take it easy... but take it."

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