Posted on Oct 17, 2015
While deployed do you have to wear your current units SSI for your SSI-FWTS?
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Combat Patch (SSI-FWTS)
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Deployment
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There is nothing in 670-1 that says what SSI-FWTS patch you have to wear. Some units try and tell you that you have to wear your current unit one while deployed. I had a BDE XO try and tell me I had to wear a certain combat patch and I told him I would wear nothing before I wore the patch he said I had to wear. It wasn't our unit patch it was someone we were attached to.
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It's in the PAM. It states you don't have to wear one at all if you don't want to.
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MAJ Ronnie Reams
Shoulder sleeve insignia such as 1st MARDIV Guadalcanal patch. Former war time service.
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No, the right sleeve is for former wartime service. If you're there in that unit, you are not former. Exception would be if you went back to the same unit on a subsequent tour.
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No, if you are there, it is not former. No requirement to wear one and if you do choose to do so you may choose the one you wear. I always rotated between 199th Inf Bde and IIFFV.
When in RVN, I wore IIFFV on the left and 199th Inf BDE on the right after I transferred.
When in RVN, I wore IIFFV on the left and 199th Inf BDE on the right after I transferred.
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The short answer is no. The real answer is that while you don't have to submit, there are much more important fights out there. There's no need to stick out for something so low.
Besides, you can flex in your As.
Besides, you can flex in your As.
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CMSgt James Nolan
SSG Kenneth Suarez Great answer. There are so many of us that need to realize which battles are worth fighting.
Often, if you look around, you can see the shell casings on the ground, you can fight, but you are often just wasting efforts on a lost battle.
Often, if you look around, you can see the shell casings on the ground, you can fight, but you are often just wasting efforts on a lost battle.
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