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Originally posted by greeneyedleo
They are jokes, per say. They are like trading cards. Squadrons will make up the patches on their own and trade them around. These are not official patches and are never worn on uniforms.
Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to
Air Force Space Command patches incorporate the logo of Star Trek in them. Does that mean the Star Trek universe is real?
Originally posted by mikesingh
Just because it says, 'Tastes like chicken' does it translate into an Olympic leap of logic, as you find it amusing?
Originally posted by mikesingh
So what's a joke doing in an official history of the unit? As you must be aware, a Unit's history is a serious matter!
Originally posted by mikesingh
May be a joke? Not sure? Well, it May not be!
Originally posted by mikesingh
Are you implying that the USAF, Space Command etc is a big joke? High time they get down to serious business instead of joking around and wasting tax payers money!
Originally posted by mikesingh
You haven't explained, why Orion in particular? And why some of the patches have the SAME 5 + 1 config of stars? Why not 3, 4, 8, 10? Does the '5 + 1' imply Area 51?
Originally posted by mikesingh
But has it struck you why the 5 + 1 star config is shown in many patches? And the significance of IX and XI? You seem to be just reproducing what's opined in some articles without applying you mind!
The most recent issue of Cabinet Magazine has a really good article by artist and CIA expert Trevor Palgen about the iconography of military insignia, particularly of those branches of the military that "don't exist." How do you celebrate your work with traditional military regalia, Palgen asks, while retaining the secrecy which defines it? It's an interesting question.
Well, sometimes you don't. Take for example this embroidered patch, distributed by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the US "black" space agency primarily responsible for the operation of military reconnaissance satellites (and God-knows-what-else). The patch was released by the NRO to commemorate the launch of a Titan 4B from Vandenberg Air Force Base -- one that boosted, according to the Air Force, a classified payload into orbit.
Classified, that is, unless you can read into the NRO's weird symbolism. Apparently, the patch -- right down to the angles of those boomerang shapes -- is a dead giveaway about the launch payload, that, it has now been confirmed, were four "Lacrosse" recon-satellittes, which give the U.S. military the ability to monitor problem spots around the world and accurately target weapons in almost real time. Yikes, that is a whole other ball of yarn entirely that I am not going to tangle with now.
On a more abstract level, these kinds of patches betray the U.S. military's deep-rooted love of insignia and symbolism. So profound was their desire to reduce, stylize, and graphically compartmentalize the event that they couldn't contain themselves from nearly giving away really classified information. It's baffling, though. Who is this highly-coded symbolism, this "formal doctrine of signs," as Charles Sanders Pierce had it, for? The people that fly the covert experimental CIA jet-planes? Most of the time, the visual rhetoric is so obscure, and yet so clearly steeped in a formal methodology of signifiers, that it's hard to see who might have the pleasure of "getting" it.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
ya they just HAPPEN to make a joke about Greys and pseudo reptilian aliens
Sure....
why wasnt it hippo-aliens or insect aliens?
maybe because they saw what the real aliens look like first? then they could make sure the patches depicted the real deal, rather than painting fake aliens like the GAZILLION possibilities that exist!
sorry its far too coincidental, i think they know something
Originally posted by mikesingh
Do these red snakes' tongues depict energy beam weapons directed at ground/airborne and selective ET craft as mentioned?
Many former astronauts, such as Edgar Mitchell, had came forward or spoken about extraterrestrial life, but to this day, NASA still claims, "they do not investigate UFOs."
Originally posted by The Wave
I'm sure that many contain a double meaning and this, I think, is why we are interested.... is it a joke or real meaning?
Originally posted by dwiggen
I must say, a lot of these patches seem like they would fall into the same category. Not to say that some of them don't have any meaning. But that one that says MYOFB? I mean come on... that would never be approved.
Originally posted by arcnaver
Originally posted by dwiggen
I must say, a lot of these patches seem like they would fall into the same category. Not to say that some of them don't have any meaning. But that one that says MYOFB? I mean come on... that would never be approved.
TACELECWARON
I have a patch that says this. HRMM, what could that be? Is it something EVIL that says Aliens are among us. No its a unit patch that means Tactical Electrical Warfare Squadron.
Originally posted by alaskan
Originally posted by mikesingh
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Some have identified the five clustered stars and one separate star as a veiled reference to Area 51, where the government tests advanced aircraft and, UFO buffs say, captured alien spacecraft. But what the three white dots signify is not known. Bears a smacking resemblance to those ubiquitous ‘ice/dust particles’ in many STS vids!
Or, you know, the constellation Orion...