Posted on Sep 24, 2015
The Army is introducing a new patch for the fight against ISIS/ISIL....
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COL Jean (John) F. B. I'm not against recognition through patches but I don't like this patch. I have a lot of thoughts at once. The symbolism on it is too reminiscent of symbolism in the area that stands for what we're trying to extinguish. Honestly I think it looks in particular like an Iraqi artist's work. It looks like something from Saddam's reign.
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1LT William Clardy
I don't know why you think it's reminiscent of Iraq under Saddam, CPT (Join to see)
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Not good. Promotes divisiveness and validates ISIL's existence as a state.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
No we aren't. Nobody thinks ISIL is a country. Heck, ISIL doesn't think it's a country. It's an organization. Everyone knows that, and of course we can go to war with an organization. Heck, we just spent over a decade in a war declared against an abstract concept (terror)..
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LCDR (Join to see)
True and I'm not saying we can't fight them at all. It seems our only disagreement is about the patch. I don't particularly like the official patches anyways but I'm not in the Army!
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Wearing this will boost esprit de corps? Really? Someone should have slapped the sh*t out of the good idea fairy over this one. All this dumb patch is going to do is validate ISIS/L, waste taxpayer dollars, and give someone who was bored a good bullet on their eval. Sheesh.
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MSG (Join to see)
1LT William Clardy - Well, I fully intend to do a PCC/PCI prior to heading out for this mission. I will ensure that I have several pieces of the most flexible part of a fishing pole. But, as soon as those pieces become battlefield lost, I will let you know.
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This isn't the Boy Scouts. We need to focusing on the multiple issues across the world. Make the badges, patches, medals. That's all great stuff, but it doesn't need to be in the news. It's insignificant to the warfighter.
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I also sent out a link to this story. I hadn't seen your entry and its many replies and I'm glad that you were on top of this issue. Another "finger" in the military's eye by this administration.
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Glad we had people devoting time to designing a patch for fighting ISIS rather than devoting time to a good strategy for fighting ISIS
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MSG (Join to see)
You mean, the multiple millions of dollars spent to train 5 guys isnt a good strategy?
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