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Title: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 05:46:41 PM
 me a patch collection.

 had an airforce crewman come in, recomended to me by the air refuling squadron member. the dood was driving a VERY nice 1959 apache. did the work that needed to be done, and he came to pick it up a little while ago.
 when he walked in, he goes "i noticed your patch on the wall, so i brought ya one of ours.". he then proceeded to slap a bully beef express patch right underneath the 32nd patch.

 these guys are friggin cool. they tell me it's just their job when i thank em.......and they bring me cool patches.  :aok

 what more can a middle aged geek like me ask for?   'cept a new mustang.  :devil
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: 68ZooM on August 24, 2011, 05:58:49 PM
MasterCraft  :aok
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 06:17:49 PM
a duffelbag of benjamins and a lamborghini diablo is something more you could ask for :devil  but thats a cool hobby you got going on. id like to see just a few of them patches if you dont mind... :noid
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 06:19:30 PM
a duffelbag of benjamins and a lamborghini diablo is something more you could ask for :devil  but thats a cool hobby you got going on. id like to see just a few of them patches if you dont mind... :noid

 i've only gotten the 2 so far....but i'll try to post em. i'll put one of my cap patches in too.


 on that note........you guys that have served, and are serving.....care to share with us? pleeeeeeze?
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 06:20:53 PM
i've only gotten the 2 so far....but i'll try to post em. i'll put one of my cap patches in too.


 on that note........you guys that have served, and are serving.....care to share with us? pleeeeeeze?
i got a pic of my great uncles f86 sabre that he flew in the korean war somewhere...not sure if its in the attic or at his house yet.
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Dichotomy on August 24, 2011, 06:25:22 PM
I think I've got a few I could mail you cap... better being used than gathering dust :)
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 06:26:49 PM
I think I've got a few I could mail you cap... better being used than gathering dust :)


dam dood....that'd be awesome, but that wasn't what i meant.....i was meaning to post pictures of them. scorpion had a good idea with that.  :aok
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 06:31:55 PM

dam dood....that'd be awesome, but that wasn't what i meant.....i was meaning to post pictures of them. scorpion had a good idea with that.  :aok
i had an idea? wow. thats the first one in a week! :rofl  anyways, why just pictures when you could have the actual deal?
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Dichotomy on August 24, 2011, 06:35:18 PM

dam dood....that'd be awesome, but that wasn't what i meant.....i was meaning to post pictures of them. scorpion had a good idea with that.  :aok

nahh I'll go digging bro... I'll letcha know what I find :)
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Vudu15 on August 24, 2011, 06:46:31 PM
Ive got some Ill have to get pics got some from a Cezch helo squadron a french SF group an apache crew member and some other stashed around I always wear em along with my Texas flag on my flight helmet while flying.
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 07:10:14 PM
Ive got some Ill have to get pics got some from a Cezch helo squadron a french SF group an apache crew member and some other stashed around I always wear em along with my Texas flag on my flight helmet while flying.
you durn texican! :neener: id bet them pics look cool tho
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 07:13:19 PM
i had an idea? wow. thats the first one in a week! :rofl  anyways, why just pictures when you could have the actual deal?

because pictures of them are a good way for everyone to share their pride.

 besides.....even though i'm a greedy bastage, i'm not so greedy as to come here and ask everyone to send me patches. that'd just be rude.
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 07:14:49 PM
nahh I'll go digging bro... I'll letcha know what I find :)

dood......if/when we hook up, the booze is on me. if ya don't drink(i don't) then the beverage of your choice is.  :aok
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 07:16:39 PM
because pictures of them are a good way for everyone to share their pride.

 besides.....even though i'm a greedy bastage, i'm not so greedy as to come here and ask everyone to send me patches. that'd just be rude.
true i guess. BTW what is your first patch? i know you got that 32nd patch, but you never said the first one. (im a cirious little monkey :lol)
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 07:19:54 PM
true i guess. BTW what is your first patch? i know you got that 32nd patch, but you never said the first one. (im a cirious little monkey :lol)

 the first one given to me was that 32nd one. the first one i earned, was civil air patrol nj wing.
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 07:42:41 PM
the first one given to me was that 32nd one. the first one i earned, was civil air patrol nj wing.
ooooh ok, i got ya. anyways, when do the pics come? :x im dying to see them!
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: CAP1 on August 24, 2011, 07:56:22 PM
these are the ones given to me at work.....
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/HPIM9424.jpg)

 these are my cap and my cap nj wing patches.....
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/HPIM9425.jpg)

 this is my cap squadron patch.....
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/HPIM9427.jpg)
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: skorpion on August 24, 2011, 07:58:53 PM
these are the ones given to me at work.....
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/HPIM9424.jpg)

 these are my cap and my cap nj wing patches.....
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/HPIM9425.jpg)

 this is my cap squadron patch.....
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/HPIM9427.jpg)
dang! thats really cool!
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Dichotomy on August 24, 2011, 08:25:28 PM
dood......if/when we hook up, the booze is on me. if ya don't drink(i don't) then the beverage of your choice is.  :aok

sounds like a plan bro  :aok
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: allaire on August 25, 2011, 07:53:34 AM
I have a bunch that I got from my father from his time in the Air Force.  Including about 8 ATC and 6 TAC patches and a ARRS patch. 
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Selino631 on August 25, 2011, 09:36:49 AM
yo CAP i give you permission to get yo self a 25th ID patch, im in the 1st Stryker BCT out of Ft Wainwright Alaska, currently in Afghanistan.

(http://www.armyonlinestore.com/images/product_images/thumbnail_images/1_6542_0.jpg)
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Tordon22 on August 25, 2011, 09:57:58 AM
I was never huge into patches, but I had read the book "Flying through Midnight" about special ops pilots taking down convoys on the Ho Chi Minh trail in complete darkness during the Vietnam War in dilapidated old cargo planes. The day after putting down the book I attended an airshow and found a patch for a similar squadron with a really cool slogan, "Deny him the dark". Had to have it.

Looks pretty much like:


(http://screenshot.xfire.com/clan_logo/160/17sos.jpg?v=a352)
Title: Re: I'M GONNA START
Post by: Grayeagle on August 26, 2011, 06:30:26 PM
Ok CAP .. some of my most memorable .. I have a box full of 'em from places I have been and things I useda do :)

There can be only one.
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/Patches/4thtfw.jpg)
I was wing TODO even for a bit, extra duty out of the ECM shop for a summer while I waited for my line number for Tsgt to come thru .. it was an awesome summer. Technically part of QA, got to stand on end of runway during simulated air attacks and invariably the F4 guys would line up on me for their strafing runs ..wish I had video of it, you dont hear an F4 comin at all till the last second :)

Shoulder patch we useda wear at Udorn
..we were told not to wear them off base as there was a bounty on our heads during in-breifing.
Udorn is 30 miles from Vientienne .. capitol of Laos. Bad guys were in the area.
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/Patches/ecm.jpg)

Off duty patch a lot of us wore on our bush hats.
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/Patches/survivor.jpg)

The Udorn Monsoon Flyers club .. gawd what a ton o memories there.
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/Patches/UdornRC.jpg)
Wing Commander was part of us, he was there the day a falcon 56 R/C plane lost its wing and meteored into the minefield outside the picket and literally blew up. The look on the pilot's face was *priceless* .. all he had left was the txmitter and no way was anyone goin out there to get his wing.

There y'go .. I'll hafta scan in a bunch o' others I have after sortin thru 'em.

-Frank aka GE