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Tipsy Gypsy Leather Patches
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Chubby
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I've been wondering, if you get the leather patches and have them sewn on your jacket, what do you do when you change squadrons? Seeing as you can't really change out the patches because the holes are already in the leather. Also, I remember hearing somewhere but wasn't sure, can you substitute the leather jacket for the SDB jacket?
I had mine sewn on. Everyone with leather patches that I've encountered did the same.
Change squadrons...let's see, odds of going to another operational squadron after your Fleet tour are slim, you may go to a training command. As a salty IP with all those Fleet stories, are you gonna swap out your perfectly aged and worn-in Fleet patch for a...training squadron patch, shiny and new and...gay?
On the flip side, I did go to another operational squadron and kept my Fleet patch. But I wanna keep my mojo.
(I've seen O-4s and above start sewing new squadron patches over the old ones and leaving the squadron name "rocker" underneath still visible. looks cool, but you dfo miss out on the patch art)
Change squadrons...let's see, odds of going to another operational squadron after your Fleet tour are slim, you may go to a training command. As a salty IP with all those Fleet stories, are you gonna swap out your perfectly aged and worn-in Fleet patch for a...training squadron patch, shiny and new and...gay?
On the flip side, I did go to another operational squadron and kept my Fleet patch. But I wanna keep my mojo.
(I've seen O-4s and above start sewing new squadron patches over the old ones and leaving the squadron name "rocker" underneath still visible. looks cool, but you dfo miss out on the patch art)
No. Oh, was that a rhetorical question?
Technically, no. Another widely ignored rule.
I'll expound a little.
"Status" symbol? I dunno, maybe. Really, who gives a fvck what patches you have.
Reminds me of something my old Skipper said in regards to a guy's ribbon rack. "You can basically read a guy's bio by checking his ribbons". Kind of the same thing with the patches. No, we can't have "Winnebagos" anymore, but you can see another aviator, tell what community he's from, where, platform specifics, maybe even deplyoments made.
The patch thing is a tradition that needs to stick around in Naval Avation. Why not have your "minimum flair"?
As far as the cost...there's no comparison as far as the quality and look of the leather-on-leather vs using embroidered. By the time you hit the Fleet and get them, it isn't like you don't have a little mad money to spend on something you'll have the rest of your life.
"Status" symbol? I dunno, maybe. Really, who gives a fvck what patches you have.
Reminds me of something my old Skipper said in regards to a guy's ribbon rack. "You can basically read a guy's bio by checking his ribbons". Kind of the same thing with the patches. No, we can't have "Winnebagos" anymore, but you can see another aviator, tell what community he's from, where, platform specifics, maybe even deplyoments made.
The patch thing is a tradition that needs to stick around in Naval Avation. Why not have your "minimum flair"?
As far as the cost...there's no comparison as far as the quality and look of the leather-on-leather vs using embroidered. By the time you hit the Fleet and get them, it isn't like you don't have a little mad money to spend on something you'll have the rest of your life.
Damn you. Now I'm going to go have to look that up. You used to be able to substitute it, and it was legal.
I purchased a leather jacket from these guys a couple years ago. From my experience they are an awesome company and they do awesome work. They actually sent me two jackets so I could make sure I was getting the right size and then I sent them both back so I could have some special work done on the one that fit right. I was really pleased with their work and I'm sure their leather patches would be great as well.
It's the Service Dress Blues jacket.Not into USN slang, so can anyone tell me what's a:
can you substitute the leather jacket for the SDB jacket?
Looked it up out of curiosity after I saw my CO wearing it that way. I was surprised also.