TXARNG 1/143 Infantry (Airborne) Patches over to 173rd Airborne!
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Much more than one weekend a month, but yes, I understand that you want to be the same.
It's 2016, boys can be girls and NG soldiers can be as good as AD soldiers.
I'm not sure if I should laugh at this or just be insulted. "Want to be the same" dude I ran circles around active duty grunts, and before I got broke doing my one weekend a month in Iraq, I probably would've ran circles around you. But nonetheless, you are a hero man, keep showing those substandard NG's how substandard they're! Oh wait, what, who took the best Ranger comp this year? Yep, those substandard Nasty Girls.
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*snicker* safety belt while mowing...awesome.
Kraut783
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well crap, that's too bad.
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.
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I've avoided the computer and most internet browsing for the better part of a year. So I've been absent from this forum and I've been looking down several paths in that time for myself to travel down. Long story short I am in the beginning stage of enlisting in Company C (Rhode Island) 143rd. Just met with the recruiter today to start my background check, coincidentally.
I did hear next year will include several weeks in Germany.
Looking in from the outside. It does seem good to pair Guard with Active.
I did hear next year will include several weeks in Germany.
Looking in from the outside. It does seem good to pair Guard with Active.
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Nice to hear from you again. Good luck with your recruiter, and the road that stretches out before you.
Keep us posted, on your progress if you can. It will be useful for others.
I can say Air Guard units are as good as AD units, but that's because they were held to standard by big blue.
In the early years a lot of us didn't have a choice. To this day I only have paperwork for 1st Cav patch awarded by 3BCT 1CAV commander. Now I've been told I can wear my unit patch, but I don't have any paperwork, so I never did. Can't tell you how bored I got explain that shit to people who always ask "where were you at in the Cav".
What would piss me off is some of the guard/reserve guys I worked with that showed up wearing a different combat patch every day. You would assume they had 20 fucking deployments, come to find out they had one and just got pimped out to every fucking unit in the Military. Or the NG guys wearing 2MARDIV patches? Why in the fuck is there a Marine patch authorized for Army, but Marines don't even wear unit patches? :wall:
Really wish the Army would just stop doing the patch thing. I think the USMC has a better out look on it.
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I'll keep the forum posted in time. Thus far it's been very straight forward.
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Has nixing the patches ever been discussed by the Army? I'm assuming it's kept primarily for the traditions many of them carry.
I was reading comments of many older guys who were part of 143rd. They were quite disappointed that the T patch was being replaced by the 173rd Brigade patch.
Are you going 11series or something else? You can PM me if you like. I'm interested to see what slots are open.
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Yes I am going 11b. I don't know what other MOS's are available for the Rhode Island Company.
I did ask if there were 68w's out of curiosity. The recruiter said only a couple but for the most part the support MOS's were located in Texas. I was interested in 11-series so I didn't ask any further. I could inquire further if you want, he specifically recruits for that unit. You're welcome to PM me.
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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.
I know my first deployment to Iraq with the 173d was authorized to wear the 4th ID patch, but I don't believe I would even consider it. I don't know anything about 4th ID and don't much care to learn.
It used to bother me when I would see people with the 173d patch and ask them which unit they were in because we were a pretty tight community over in Italy. More often than not the guy would tell me they were just attached and knew nothing about who they were even attached to. This is what actually bothered me. No the unit history and what you did for a unit before wearing a patch. Plenty of people wearing that electric butter knife out there that do just because the patch is cooler than their own too.. and maybe because of the airborne tab. who knows.
I was awarded the bloody bucket for another trip to Iraq later on.. was awarded to me posthumously in iPerms..... so... never going to wear that shit.
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.
I know my first deployment to Iraq with the 173d was authorized to wear the 4th ID patch, but I don't believe I would even consider it. I don't know anything about 4th ID and don't much care to learn.
It used to bother me when I would see people with the 173d patch and ask them which unit they were in because we were a pretty tight community over in Italy. More often than not the guy would tell me they were just attached and knew nothing about who they were even attached to. This is what actually bothered me. No the unit history and what you did for a unit before wearing a patch. Plenty of people wearing that electric butter knife out there that do just because the patch is cooler than their own too.. and maybe because of the airborne tab. who knows.
I was awarded the bloody bucket for another trip to Iraq later on.. was awarded to me posthumously in iPerms..... so... never going to wear that shit.
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My last three USAR/NG units all had AD patches as their patch, guess we never had that issue.
As far as I know it's never been discussed past the smoke pit. I highly doubt it would ever happen, especially with all the patch envy that carries on.
That's because we are the best.
I agree, and when I was in, ANG units were handling some 40%-50% of the daily Air Force workload.
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