Should the Army do away with Patches and go to one universal Symbol like the Marines EGA?

Never

Keep the Unit Patches.

It’s kinda funny because I was in the USMC Infantry and when in the field during some rare down time we’d talk about how we thought the Marine Corps should have either a patch or pin to distinguish us from the pogs...

Sounds like u want to get rid of tradition to help u meet ur goal. Shame

This has to be the dumbest post that I have ever seen come from this platform .
Let’s bring back the pink and greens , oh , we are already doing that .
Just leave it all alone

Patches identify us with units we are currently serving with or served with in combat. No need for civilians to understand. Those civilians that served will understand and be able to identify Soldiers with their units

Respectfully speaking, if you are a recruiter and the Army is losing the Marines on image, you are not doing your job, which is to sell the Army to the next generation of recruits.

Any student of history who looks at a sleeve and sees 1st Cav, the 82nd, 101, 10th Mountain, and the other active duty divisions sees the soldiers who have picked up the guidon from both the heroes of the past and our glorious dead. I am in awe of those patches and the Marines are missing out. I have seen Marines who joined the Army and put 1st or 2nd Marine on their right sleeve and I am in awe of them too, and the direct link to Guadalcanal, the Chosin Resevour, Viet Nam, and the Middle East.

It’s all in how you sell it. Those patches are there for a reason, a glorious reason.

Don’t change, I someone ask about what you do that’s cool. Take a minute and talk to them, who knows you may be talking to a future solder who is unsure.

No, next question.

The only way to reason this REALLY matters is that less than 1 % of Americans ever serve in the morning military....