To be sure, Army unit patches vary greatly ... Old Abe was the mascot for Company C, 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment — nicknamed the Eau Claire Eagles — during the Civil War.

Midshipmen players have worn unit patches on their Army-Navy game uniforms for at least ... The center will be wearing the patch of the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines, dubbed “America’s Battalion ...

With the Army rapidly expanding, the 81st infantry Division started wearing patches with the silhouette of a wildcat on their uniforms, to distinguish the unit. It caught on, and after some ...

Soldiers assigned to the new Army Futures Command have both a new shoulder sleeve insignia and distinctive unit insignia. Both carry a central theme, an anvil, as a symbol of the unit's motto ...

Maj. Mark Dornbusch, battalion sergeant major, left, changes the unit patch on Alpha Company commander and first sergeant, from the Texas Army National Guard's 36th Infantry Division “T Patch ...

But the move has some soldiers riled up. "Combat patches aren't worn to say 'look I've deployed' or 'I love this unit'," wrote Tom Simpkins on the Army Times Facebook page in an answer to a ...

"There's a collection of different unit patches that we're all wearing right now," Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, who led US Army Alaska and now commands the 11th Airborne Division, said at the press ...

An Army executive ... be sporting new patches. Soldiers supporting garrison operations will wear the shoulder sleeve insignia of their installation senior commander’s unit.