You probably need a jeweler's eye to notice what is wrong with the 1st Cavalry Division’s current patch, but troopers at Fort Hood are walking around with patches whose manufacturer stuck a ...

Insignia and apparel have always been important to military units. In the United States, for patches worn on the uniform, the history dates back to World War I. With the Army rapidly expanding ...

The 29th Infantry Division wore that patch when its soldiers stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied Normandy, France, in 1944, becoming one of the military's most legendary units for its actions on ...

While some of the submitted patches were unofficial, all were a testament to the creativity, camaraderie and occasional bouts of belligerence that comes with military service. The Navy’s ...

The U.S. Army is unique among military branches in that all soldiers are required to wear a shoulder patch identifying their units. To those who serve, the patch is more than cloth and thread.

Morale patches are patches troops wear on their uniforms designed to be a funny inside joke, applicable only to their specific unit or military career field. They are usually worn during ...

From "Brian," we've got ourselves a whole new crop of awesomely bad military patches -- some of the awesomely worst, yet. He writes: I was an officer in the Air Force for 9 years and ...

And shoulder patches prove useful in one other respect. They make great fodder for museums. "One of the problems with military museums is most of the artifacts in the museum are green, brown ...

In every way but one, this military patch looks like all the others that have been affixed throughout the years onto the flight suits of those in the Naval Aviation Schools Command. On a ...