A young Alexandria reader invited a real cop to her mystery-themed birthday — and Officer Ignacio delivered in style.

Navy football collects hundreds of patches from military units that get sewn onto jerseys for each year's Army-Navy game. How the patches are selected — and what they represent — varies widely.

The patches often (not always) make fun of a depressing, boring, or otherwise specific part of the job. These patches have been around since the military began to wear patches.

The unit shoulder patches worn by the Army and Marines were not approved until relatively late in the war, around November 1918 ― well after the Corps’ hallowed battle at Belleau Wood.

From "Brian," we’ve got ourselves a whole new crop of awesomely bad military patches — some of the awesomely worst, yet. He writes: I was an officer in the Air Force for 9 years and ...

“I’ve carried this military patch with me every day for 40 years, and I want you to carry it, and it will keep you safe in your journey.” Obama tried to refuse, but the older man persisted.

Indiana National Guard soldiers who served in Kosovo in 2022 received a combat patch during a ceremony at Camp Atterbury on ...

Unit patches. Unless you are in the Marines, chances are you’re wearing them on your uniform at some point. And there are some, often little seen, patches that are just, at the end of the day ...

U.S. Army Alaska will be redesignated as the 11th Airborne Division this summer, and the force will be reintroducing the patch used decades ago, but with an Arctic twist. The original unit ...

From the Army to the Navy to the Air Force – sorry Marine Corps ... unit patches in the US military. How weird can your patch get? By Max Hauptman. Published Sep 14, 2022 3:46 PM EDT ...

These patches are a window into the most classified reaches of the US military. "This is one the very few glimpses that you get into this world, the black world, as they call it," says Paglen.