Post what you have:







Others:

I'll play...



And the 'JO Junk Jacket'...



Your "Powerpoint" and "BOHICA" are appropriate!

The Hornet Patch is awesome Rhino.

I used to dream about flying jets when I was a kid. Who knew the recruiters would say that you had to demonstrate sound math and physics skills?

The military had other funny ideas about my interactions with aircraft.


Missing more than a few, but what the heck. (hoping I don't get 'coined' in the near future).

Had to go digging in storage boxes for most of this stuff. Most noticeable I still need to find are my US and British jump wings.

One day, I may get some mannequins and do up some uniform sets on them with equipment we wore for 'old time hockey.'

Not my only one...Just my favorite. Got it from a student going thru fighter lean-in training. It was his tweet
(or t-38, don't remember which) class patch.





Rick

I'd love to see Doc Steve's collection but I know there's no way way he'd post them.

I can't find it. But it is a great patch.

I have too many to show all of them.



That's an original, 1960s vintage VF-143 cap, not long after this cap was made the 'Dog' was changed to face the opposite direction. The F-4 is a model I built of 'Taproom 307', a MiG killer from the Vietnam War.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...af206/DSC00068-1.jpg

I'll just post the url for this one, you can click on it and open it for yourselves, if you care to.

You guys are a awsome bunch! Rhino..had you been a Tom Cat pilot?

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Originally posted by David Lee:
You guys are a awsome bunch! Rhino..had you been a Tom Cat pilot?

The F4 is just too cool! Saw some of these on TV in the Gulf War.

quote:

Originally posted by David Lee:
You guys are a awsome bunch! Rhino..had you been a Tom Cat pilot?

RIO (Radar Intercept Officer), the dude sitting in the back. That was what we were in the F-14. In the FA-18F "Rhino", we used the term WSO (Weapon Systems Officer). It was the same job really, RIO was a hold over from when the Tomcat was only doing air-to-air missions, but when I was flying we were doing lots of air-to-ground stuff.

Those were all velcro patches from my flight suit except the 1000HR Tomcat patch, that one was an extra as I misplaced the one I wore for awhile after transitioning to the Rhino.

That's just too cool now! I've never even been in a passenger air craft. The F-14 is among my favorite fighters. Have seen video of the Phoenix whackin enemy from the sky.
Think I will just stay on the ground thank you..

Hey Irish, where did you get that "Stay back 100m patch"?
Being looking for a colored version for quite a while, can only find OD or coyote on egay.

thanks in advance

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Originally posted by P228:
Hey Irish, where did you get that "Stay back 100m patch"?
Being looking for a colored version for quite a while, can only find OD or coyote on egay.

thanks in advance

International Zone, Baghdad.

A few I've collected so far.

I would like to see some from the artillary guys!