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Originally Posted by Seaver
Carn that first picture Alpha posted IS a Marine. You can tell by the digi-cami's. Yeah the Army is getting their version, but it's a grey version and is clearly different.
Some Marines DO put the flag patch on their shoulder. It's on backwards because the Marines do not want to see the flag "in retreat", instead it's always charging forward. HOWEVER, they take it off while entering combat because that bright red/white stripes tend to ruin the whole point of camoflage.
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Out of curiosity, I asked hubby about this and he affirmed this. He wore a patch on his shoulder during non combat deployments to Kosovo and Africa, but he did remove them while in Iraq. He said the picture posted was probably taken about the time he got out (fall 2003), because the Marine still had regular camoflauged helmets and mollypacks; they hadn't made the digitized ones yet.