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Army service uniform dress blue overseas service stripe bars female. Blue represents the united states and red and yellow represent vietnam. Aug 10, 2018 each unit that was created for and during vietnam has a distinctive patch with its own pattern. This patch features one gold, one blue, and one red horizontal stripe in the patch with a white border. Army acu digital officer and enlisted shoulder rank insignias.
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These embroidered patches can be sewn or ironed on to your clothing. Us army patches army unit patches and army regiment patches. Originally, visually based around the french ranks, the ranks were changed in 1967 to resemble the us ranks more closely officer ranks. Used and preowned vietnam war uniforms for sale on ebay come in a wide array of categories. Display the proud history of your service or honor a friend or family member who went to fight in the jungle slog with one of the vietnam patches from medals of america. Show your service pride with your detailed vietnam cib patch. Priorservice offers a huge selection of vietnam veteran unit patches.
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Shoulder sleeve insignia united states army wikipedia. You might be curious about those patches so in this video ill talk about what is. This is the combat service identification badge csib worn by the united states army vietnam. Vietnam war us army combat infantryman subdued patch ebay.
Another patch that has the sword as a centerpiece, the united states army vietnam patch has a white sword with a gold hilt in the center of the patch that is the same shape as the macv patch. Military shoulder patches s selection of military shoulder patches is the most complete collection of authentic military patches available. The earliest military patches on record are actually sleeve patches used during the u. Army vietnam combat service identification badge usamm.
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