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5/12/2025, 11:33:10 AM
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>Do veterans think civvies who have patches are assholes? I kind of want to buy some but I don't want to feel like an asshole for wearing them around vets.
Unit patches? Maybe, depends on how you present them. If you're wearing a basic jacket with some neat patches on the back or a few in non-uniform locations, most people would just assume you have an uncle who sent you shit or you went on a tiger cruise once. Wearing one unit's patches in uniform locations on your regular civvie jacket is probably gonna raise some eyebrows. Stacking a couple cool unit patches into a battle jacket covered with random stuff isn't even going to warrant a blink. Random-ass morale patches are just normal gear -- with one caveat. Wearing something that says you're a medic or are carrying a first-aid kit when you have neither gear or any training is a HUGE dick move because it can fuck up triage for everyone else responding to an incident. Get trained, Stop the Bleed is free and a tourniquet pack is like $50-70 when they go on sale.
FWIW I was in for two hitches, deployed three times all over the Pacific for ~10 months each. My main morale jacket has a flag for every country I visited on the sleeves and all the squadrons in the two CAGs I deployed with on the back in a ring, plus some embroidery in the center. And a Neo-Zeon flag hidden in with the Commie countries, alongside a clear First Aid patch on the right breast and one on my belt IFAK.
My metal battle jacket, on the other hand, is exclusively bands I've seen in concert, a piece of Harry Clarke art on the back, a couple random morale patches, and again the patches on my belt IFAK. I've been seriously considering getting some Samurai Cat art done for a sukajan down the road, Mark Rogers was truly a based /k/-tard and deserves more love.
>Do veterans think civvies who have patches are assholes? I kind of want to buy some but I don't want to feel like an asshole for wearing them around vets.
Unit patches? Maybe, depends on how you present them. If you're wearing a basic jacket with some neat patches on the back or a few in non-uniform locations, most people would just assume you have an uncle who sent you shit or you went on a tiger cruise once. Wearing one unit's patches in uniform locations on your regular civvie jacket is probably gonna raise some eyebrows. Stacking a couple cool unit patches into a battle jacket covered with random stuff isn't even going to warrant a blink. Random-ass morale patches are just normal gear -- with one caveat. Wearing something that says you're a medic or are carrying a first-aid kit when you have neither gear or any training is a HUGE dick move because it can fuck up triage for everyone else responding to an incident. Get trained, Stop the Bleed is free and a tourniquet pack is like $50-70 when they go on sale.
FWIW I was in for two hitches, deployed three times all over the Pacific for ~10 months each. My main morale jacket has a flag for every country I visited on the sleeves and all the squadrons in the two CAGs I deployed with on the back in a ring, plus some embroidery in the center. And a Neo-Zeon flag hidden in with the Commie countries, alongside a clear First Aid patch on the right breast and one on my belt IFAK.
My metal battle jacket, on the other hand, is exclusively bands I've seen in concert, a piece of Harry Clarke art on the back, a couple random morale patches, and again the patches on my belt IFAK. I've been seriously considering getting some Samurai Cat art done for a sukajan down the road, Mark Rogers was truly a based /k/-tard and deserves more love.
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