Unknown pach - help needed

[Markgraf]

Hi Gentlemen!

This patch can be seen on a BDU tunic on the right breast over the name patch. The owner was Colonel in the US Ordnance Corps. I can't find it among the official badges/patches.

Please help!

[dmiller8]

Customarily, foreign awards earned by US Soldiers that are available in a subdued version for wear on the old BDU would wear them on the right side, as long as they had a corresponding US award on the left. It looks like it might be the Ordnance Qualification badge of the South Vietnamese Army, their version of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge. See :http://www.indochinamilitaria.com/vinsignia.htm

[Markgraf]

dmiller8: Thank You! The owner really served in Vietnam (accordance with his ribbons).

[Joker7]

That would have been custom made, there is (or at least used to be) a tailor's shop outside of Fort Bragg that would make these up for just about any foreign badge you had.

when we were still allowed to wear foreign badges on combat uniforms I had several made for various foreign jump wings, so that I had a different set of wings for each uniform.