What is a good website for ordering AF squadron patches?

2018-05-23T22:23:45-04:00

I'm looking for the following: 321'st Basic Training Squadron, 335th Training Squadron, 19th Maintenance Squadron, and 35th Maintenance Squadron.

Response by Maj Walter Kilar made May 23 at 2018 11:34 PM

2018-05-23T23:34:10-04:00

First of all, I am surprised there are any 2P0X1s around anymore. Second, I have been lucky finding patches on Vanguard, or random Google searches. Air Force patches have been hard to find in the recent decade, since most of us wear ABUs without any patches. I suppose that market with grow again with the OCP uniform.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 2:54 AM

2018-05-24T02:54:50-04:00

I've gotta really give that some thought, I actually saved mine, purely as keepsakes, I've also seen any number of sites that sell generic service patches, though I've never run across one for specific units. Purely as a guess, though, NPRC in St Louis, or maybe NARA, the Natl Archives above them, might keep photo records of such things, at least such that you could get photos of what the patcfges you'd wanted actually looked like. Even if you'd find such ohotosz how you'd get actual patches made from those there, I'm totally clueless, however, as I'd said, let me think about that whole thing, I mean WW2 B-17 nose art tends to have photo records kept of it, I can't imagine someone wouldn't keep a copy of unit patches, even if only photos...I'd expect, maybe, you could also ask legitimate military collector groups or businesses who in their corner of the universe deals in such military arcania...I've gotta admit that was a good wuestionz thought that one made my mental gears revolve somewhat, certainly....

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 2:59 AM

2018-05-24T02:59:12-04:00

http://www.asmic.org/

I just stumbled across this, I gather such patches are a variety of military heraldry, I just thought they might possibly have a clue...I've often found that such professional associations are often a pretty decent way to find out about such stuff....

ASMIC

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 3:01 AM

2018-05-24T03:01:17-04:00

http://www.asmic.org/gstcontact.aspx

Here's a site of theirs with directory stuff on it by region....

ASMIC Contact Us

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 3:06 AM

2018-05-24T03:06:06-04:00

I looked through their site, apparently they have listings of various shows ASMIC holds for military collectors around the country, I did see phone listings, I gather they seem to be among the larger major groups for tat sort of thing...if you look up ASMIC shows, you should see PDFs listing such info, if I see anything else useful, I'll try to send it as well....

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 3:13 AM

2018-05-24T03:13:10-04:00

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/259026-latest-issue-of-the-asmic-trading-post/

This actually looked fairly promising....

Latest Issue of the ASMIC "Trading Post" - ARMY AND USAAF

Page 1 of 5 - Latest Issue of the ASMIC "Trading Post" - posted in ARMY AND USAAF: I just got my latest issue of the ASMIC Trading Post and just wanted to say that if you arent a member of ASMIC, you are truly missing out on one of the best references out there. I was especially interested in the image of the Anti-Tank patch worn on the cuff of the Ike jacket by some soldiers of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Ive been...

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 3:14 AM

2018-05-24T03:14:44-04:00

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/

Here's the home page for that last one....

U.S. Militaria Forum

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 24 at 2018 3:22 AM

2018-05-24T03:22:26-04:00

https://m.facebook.com/groups/ [login to see] 78612/

I found that also....

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Response by SrA Zo Evans Sr made May 24 at 2018 10:50 AM

2018-05-24T10:50:19-04:00

How is Misawa these days? I was there back in the late 80’s. We were the Samurai back then. I was with the 14 th AMU .