Military patches

There's an entire sub-culture that's evolved around the development of military patches by units and individuals. In his Danger Room military blog Noah Schachtman recently ran a series of posts on the Most Awesomely Bad Military Patches. This DR post summarizes the latest developments and links to all the many other posts on the topic. Recommended reading.

DR's readers voted this the Most Awesomely Bad Military Patch:




However, it had plenty of competition. A few samples:












Super Punch got in on the act with a series of posts collecting some awesome patches. A couple of examples:






As you can see, political correctness is not necessarily an occupational hazard for the designers of these badges!

There's even a new book on the subject:
It focuses on patches issued by Pentagon (and other agencies') secret projects - clearly a subject about which "insiders" can talk for hours!

Peter