God that video is painful to watch. I’m not a soldier, and I would never in my right mind claim to be under any circumstances. I’ve taken uniform patches given to me by veteran relatives and sewn them to hiking packs and been asked questions, but I never claimed to be military or know anything about the role my relatives played in conflicts.
This reminds of an experience I had with a job interview candidate a few years ago. Kid claimed to be an “expert” on Microsoft and networking technologies. He made it through his HR interview, and they threw him to me to vet his knowledge background. Within 90 seconds of him sitting down, I knew he was a fraud. He couldn’t answer basic technology questions about which he purported to be an expert. It was the most uncomfortable I’d ever felt for a person in my life. He was cocksure through the whole process, and gave quick, concise answers like the guy in this video, but ultimately, your words betray your deeds if you are a fraud.
Please just put the patches away. They shouldn’t be misused by sewing them onto non regulation locations or on personal gear.
I knew a guy once that proudly told me he was interviewing for a position as a comptroller for a company. I knew this idiot had no experience or education in accounting whatsoever. I asked what a comptroller did, and he had no answer. He was interviewing for the job and he didn’t even know what comptroller meant! I always wondered how that interview went. People wonder why they have to jump through hoops to even get an interview these days.
This shouldn't be complicated, if you put a single unit patch on something personal then people are naturally going to think that you served in that unit, if it is part of a collage, or collection of various patches, then they would see it as such.
If you are the type that sews patches onto your gear, you should have an eye for that kind of thing already.