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Can Anyone ID this Vietnam Era Shoulder Patch? (vanity)
self | May 24, 2016 | bkopto

Posted on 05/24/2016 7:00:48 AM PDT by bkopto

What is the meaning of the patch on the left shoulder?


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Thank you.
1 posted on 05/24/2016 7:00:48 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

Looks like 173rd Airborne Brigade


2 posted on 05/24/2016 7:03:41 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: bkopto

I think it is 173rd Airborne Division.


3 posted on 05/24/2016 7:04:09 AM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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4 posted on 05/24/2016 7:04:16 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: Sicvee

I mean Brigade.


5 posted on 05/24/2016 7:04:39 AM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: bkopto

yes...that’s the 173rd Airborne Brigade.


6 posted on 05/24/2016 7:04:50 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (There were no muslims on the Mayflower)
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To: bkopto

I have no idea but it looks like they are praying and they are in the water and it could be a baptisim...liberal heads are exploding. It kinda looks like a flame like Holy Spirit...so perhaps some sort of religious insignia...more liberal heads exploding.
Hope you find out what it means
Freegards
LEX


7 posted on 05/24/2016 7:05:02 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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Yup the 173rd, the are stationed mostly in Italy if I remember.


8 posted on 05/24/2016 7:05:44 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Oh its AIRBORNE? I knew that...heh


9 posted on 05/24/2016 7:05:59 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: bkopto

What an inspiring pic!


10 posted on 05/24/2016 7:06:56 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (We cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become the next Angela Merkel)
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To: bkopto

This it?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/173Airborne_Brigade_Shoulder_Patch.png


11 posted on 05/24/2016 7:07:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Wow, that was fast. I thought it was going to be a hard question.

The man on the far left looks like my old man, infact, a spittin’ image of him, but he was in the SeaBees, not in the Airborne.


12 posted on 05/24/2016 7:08:56 AM PDT by bkopto
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https://www.google.com/search?q=173rd+Airborne+Brigade+shoulder+patches&hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&oq=173rd+Airborne+Brigade+shoulder+patches&gs_l=img.12...35311.36565.0.39286.2.2.0.0.0.0.120.238.0j2.2.0....0...1ac.1.34.img..2.0.0.ipsc5idbg6M


13 posted on 05/24/2016 7:09:03 AM PDT by deport
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To: bkopto

Oops - “far RIGHT”, I mean.


14 posted on 05/24/2016 7:10:06 AM PDT by bkopto
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Fr. Charles Watters

15 posted on 05/24/2016 7:12:05 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Amazing photo!
Our military is a far cry from that era now.


16 posted on 05/24/2016 7:20:06 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (God is a racist! Get over it snowflakes. Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Romans 9:13-15)
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To: bkopto

That would be the 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade. (Independent)


17 posted on 05/24/2016 7:20:33 AM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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Yup the 173rd, the are stationed mostly in Italy if I remember.

Their Viet Nam base was An Kay If I remember right.

18 posted on 05/24/2016 7:53:46 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Right on! I was a member during Viet Nam war...


19 posted on 05/24/2016 7:57:36 AM PDT by mandaladon (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twai)
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To: bkopto

The 173rd is still around.

I was with them in Afghanistan in 2012.

20 posted on 05/24/2016 8:03:44 AM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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