Okay, so I was watching the Jericho series finale last night, and the
military officers did something that always makes me wonder if this
really happens...

In just about every movie and TV show involving a uniformed person as
a semi-main (or higher) character, there inevitably comes a point where
this character either disgraces his uniform, or becomes disgusted with
what it stands far. As a result, a CO (or the actual person) promptly
rips off a patch (usually rank or affiliation) in a nicely symbolic gesture.

My question ALWAYS is: Are patches REALLY that simple to rip off? I
know in TV its probably velcro or something like that, but real modern
uniforms aren't like that, are they? Seriously... I was a Boy Scout,
and it was always a pain to have to remove a patch and replace it with
each rank.

GMAN wrote:

> Yes, its velcro. The reason behind it is if when in battle, they need to be
> able to easily remove any bright color on the uniform to prevent it from being
> an easily identifiable marking, basically to go along with the camo colors.
> There are basically the monochrome variety like you seen them wearing on
> Jerico, and the regular Red, White, Blue flag patch when they want it clearly
> identified as them being a US Soldier.
..
..
Thanks for the info!

I wish we would have done that in Scouts... lol

In article <47ea689a$0$6120$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, "Ryan P." <rpaque@delete.this.part.wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I was watching the Jericho series finale last night, and the
>military officers did something that always makes me wonder if this
>really happens...
>
> In just about every movie and TV show involving a uniformed person as
>a semi-main (or higher) character, there inevitably comes a point where
>this character either disgraces his uniform, or becomes disgusted with
>what it stands far. As a result, a CO (or the actual person) promptly
>rips off a patch (usually rank or affiliation) in a nicely symbolic gesture.
>
> My question ALWAYS is: Are patches REALLY that simple to rip off? I
>know in TV its probably velcro or something like that, but real modern
>uniforms aren't like that, are they? Seriously... I was a Boy Scout,
>and it was always a pain to have to remove a patch and replace it with
>each rank.
>
Yes, its velcro. The reason behind it is if when in battle, they need to be
able to easily remove any bright color on the uniform to prevent it from being
an easily identifiable marking, basically to go along with the camo colors.
There are basically the monochrome variety like you seen them wearing on
Jerico, and the regular Red, White, Blue flag patch when they want it clearly
identified as them being a US Soldier.

"GMAN" <glenzabr@dontspammebro.xmission.com> wrote in message
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> In article <47ea689a$0$6120$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, "Ryan P."
> <rpaque@delete.this.part.wi.rr.com> wrote:
>> Okay, so I was watching the Jericho series finale last night, and the
>>military officers did something that always makes me wonder if this
>>really happens...
>>
>> In just about every movie and TV show involving a uniformed person as
>>a semi-main (or higher) character, there inevitably comes a point where
>>this character either disgraces his uniform, or becomes disgusted with
>>what it stands far. As a result, a CO (or the actual person) promptly
>>rips off a patch (usually rank or affiliation) in a nicely symbolic
>>gesture.
>>
>> My question ALWAYS is: Are patches REALLY that simple to rip off? I
>>know in TV its probably velcro or something like that, but real modern
>>uniforms aren't like that, are they? Seriously... I was a Boy Scout,
>>and it was always a pain to have to remove a patch and replace it with
>>each rank.
>>
> Yes, its velcro. The reason behind it is if when in battle, they need to
> be
> able to easily remove any bright color on the uniform to prevent it from
> being
> an easily identifiable marking, basically to go along with the camo
> colors.



BBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTT!!

Wrong.

The velcro patch is something new to the new Army uniforms.
Also, there has been no bright colors on a battle uniforms since the 60s.
The unit patches are olive and black in color on them. Prior to the new
uniform, the patches were sewn on.
Even officer rank insiginas are toned down to not shine. Silver becomes
black, and golds stays gold (2nd LT and Major), but more looks like dull
copper color.




> There are basically the monochrome variety like you seen them wearing on
> Jerico, and the regular Red, White, Blue flag patch when they want it
> clearly
> identified as them being a US Soldier.
>
>