Posted on Mar 27, 2015
Wearing Unauthorized Patches/Flags while deployed?
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On deployments you may see some uniform variations that would not be seen while stateside. One of them is the wearing of patches. Do you or have you seen this while you were deployed. If you were working with another nation's military would you wear their flag on your uniform as a sign of partnership? Can this get carried away or is it a means to show some motivational patch? Should be strictly adhere to our regulation even while deployed?
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If you are working with soldiers from another nation, and language is different - wearing their flag might be an important coordination issue - to prevent 'friendly fire'. But if the US soldiers were going to wear that other country flag, I would expect those other soldiers to wear the US flag on their uniform. For the same prevent 'friendly fire' reason.
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While in Saudi Arabia, we weren't allowed to wear our flag or display it on our own post...I was hasseled by our 1stSGT for having a flag mounted on our maintenance van...WTF!
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PO1 Cleve Ikaika Waiwaiole
this also happened to me on one of my deployments.. couldn't even wear the american flag on our body armor
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In reality they can't. It is banned in 670-1. They would have to get an exception to policy. I don't think that this would ever be something that is officially approved, outside of the SF community
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They don't wear our flag when they are working with us why would we even think about wearing there's. Some joe just trying to look cool. There is no place for that.
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As a Seabee/CEC Officer in Kabul in 2006, everyone in the command (CSTC-A) wore a pin with the Afghan/US flags above our name tape...
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Personally, I don't see a problem if they wear the allies flag under the American flag on their shoulder. It would promote the alliance. I have to say no to wearing only the allies flag
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It can but it would represent that you are affiliated or aligned with that country. When I was in Iraq I never wanted to wear an Iraqi Flag or be affiliated with their Country. If the people of that country see that they may think I man be under the command of their gov.
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Context and execution are everything. There's no one answer to this. Done well, it can help with team building. Done poorly, the opposite can occur..
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