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Airborne Leathers brand G-1 Jackets...
- Thread starter JD81
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Did you get the "Movie Heroes Top Gun" or just the plain "Top Gun?"
No, this is my favorite.
According to his patches, this guy did the F-14 to F-18 to P-3 transition.
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NTTAWWT . . .
Seriously, though. Granted, in TACAIR land these days, unlike our 60's/70's brethren, the patches go on the Nomex, not the leather. But there's still a language to where the patches go. Your unit patches overlap on the left chest. Your platform patches overlap on the right shoulder. The back is more or less free form for cruise patches, unless you are/were a Grumman person, Lemoore Hornet type, or Dambuster, in which case the center of your back usually contains a big obnoxious Grumman Iron Works Harley patch/West Coast Strike Fighter patch, or whatever the Dambuster logo is called patch. And generally, between the shoulder blades, you sport a running tally of whatever fleet ISIC your squadron reported to. Usually a CVW, though the exped VAQ types had their own patch going for awhile. Tactics instructor patches tend to go right below the community patch or replace it. Centurion patches go on the sleeves toward the cuff, generally with a Tailhook Association tally of total traps on one sleeve and a boat-by-boat Centurion/Nocturion tally on the other. All else is free form.
Yet civilians who are trying to ape carrier aviators apparently have no sense of pattern recognition and just go BLAAAAH DERP DERP MAVERICK GOOSE JERRY BRUCKHEIMER PATCHES EVERYWHERE.
