TXARNG 1/143 Infantry (Airborne) Patches over to 173rd Airborne!

I laugh, and still do, at the Guard guys I saw in Afghanistan who wore AD patches on the right in lieu of their Guard patch. Everyone's proud to be Guard and "as good as AD" and all until it is time to wear a Guard patch.

That is something that pisses me off immensely.
I've seen guys from my deployed unit, wearing AD patches that I know damn well they are not entitled to wear.
Be proud of what you earned, don't be a fucking poser because it makes you look "cool".

Some units don't deploy in enough numbers or at a level that would allow them to wear their own patch. I wouldn't know what level that would be though. I'm aware of times where units deploy at a company level to augment another unit.

Also a little while back, there was a MILPER message that only allowed soldiers to retain/wear the lowest level patch authorized for the deployment, not every patch to every unit all the way up to Corps like I've seen some people.

According to the last time I read the regs, Company level deployments and above demand that you wear your deployed company's patch, regardless of who that company falls under during the deployment, and you are only authorized that ONE patch, per deployment.
 

I had to laugh at this. AD medics have been in my experience a lot of the time, (not all the time of course, i've meet some highspeed mofos too!) shitbags with poor medical skills. When you ask what they spend their days doing, invariably it's something to do with the motorpool.
I was shocked when I first heard that.
The Guard medics don't get a lot of real medical training either after they've done all their mandatory "Training" events for the year, but a lot of them work in medical fields as civilians and that helps bring the non medically employed people up in their standards too.
 
According to the last time I read the regs, Company level deployments and above demand that you wear your deployed company's patch, regardless of who that company falls under during the deployment, and you are only authorized that ONE patch, per deployment.

That was the change in 2007. Prior to then only division, separate brigades, and few special battalions would warrant their own patch. Now your authorized only your lowest level, which is typically to the company level.
 
What is old is new again. The army has gone through several times where active duty units had "fill-in" units from the Guard and Reserves as a cost saving measure.
 
A Fox article on the changes along with other states.

A Shrinking Army Aims To Keep Citizen-soldiers Combat Ready

The 48th Infantry Brigade of the Georgia National Guard is the first unit to make the change. A few hundred 48th Brigade troops attended a ceremony Friday officially tying them to the Fort Stewart-based 3rd Infantry Division. Now 3rd Infantry commanders will oversee training of the National Guard brigade's 4,200 troops.

The 3rd Infantry's commander, Maj. Gen. Jim Rainey, said the partnership will ensure the Guard brigade is prepared to deploy for war if needed.

3rd ID and the 48th...chocolate and peanut butter. I'm still laughing at the concept because I question if we learned from the 80's/90's "round up" brigades. Eh, time will tell and good luck to all involved. Considering the 48th deployed a few times in the GWOT, I find the "ready for war" aspect kind of funny.
 
A Fox article on the changes along with other states.

A Shrinking Army Aims To Keep Citizen-soldiers Combat Ready



3rd ID and the 48th...chocolate and peanut butter. I'm still laughing at the concept because I question if we learned from the 80's/90's "round up" brigades. Eh, time will tell and good luck to all involved. Considering the 48th deployed a few times in the GWOT, I find the "ready for war" aspect kind of funny.
Guard units no longer train for war, Powerpoint briefings take up drill weekends and most AT are a joke because we lack funding.
 
Learned today that since they've been attached to the 173rd there is a lot more opportunity for guys to jump aside from drill weekends.

I've sworn in today to RING for the 143rd, leave in February.
 
Guard units no longer train for war, Powerpoint briefings take up drill weekends and most AT are a joke because we lack funding.

Drill is mostly a waste of time. They'd be better off having a mandatory 6 mth pre-mob, and training the shit out of them then.
Enlist, go to basic/AIT, go to courses and sit at home being a civi, like the IRR. Then be called up when needed every 5 years. 6 mths to get fit and be trained properly!, go to war, then spend the next 5 years getting fat again and going to the odd course or two.
And/or expand the AGR side of the house. Fulltime Guard/Reserve serving in their communities.

I don't know, just spit balling.
 
In a bizarre twist, I've just learned that active duty Soldiers that are assigned to Ft Polk are wearing the TX 36th patch now...
 
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