10-20-2006, 17:46
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Captain Jack Patch
Lately, at least a couple of years, I have noticed that some released photos of Spec Ops soldiers show "Captain Jack" insignia's on their sleeve, or sometimes on the velcro patch on a chest harness. Is this a resurgence of the "Mike Force" type patch ? Perhaps a "TF" type designation ? or merely a morale booster ?
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10-20-2006, 18:10
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Originally Posted by 82ndtrooper
Lately, at least a couple of years, I have noticed that some released photos of Spec Ops soldiers show "Captain Jack" insignia's on their sleeve, or sometimes on the velcro patch on a chest harness. Is this a resurgence of the "Mike Force" type patch ? Perhaps a "TF" type designation ? or merely a morale booster ?
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What are you talking about?
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10-20-2006, 19:26
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What are you talking about?
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Skull with two swords crossed underneath. Black on a lighter background.
I've seen this on several photos of Special Ops soldiers, maybe a Navy SEAL thing for Piracy and anti-piracy ship board ops teams, but it is the same as the "Mike Force" "Yards" had on their sleeves. Just wondering.
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10-20-2006, 19:31
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Skull with two swords crossed underneath. Black on a lighter background.
I've seen this on several photos of Special Ops soldiers, maybe a Navy SEAL thing for Piracy and anti-piracy ship board ops teams, but it is the same as the "Mike Force" "Yards" had on their sleeves. Just wondering.
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Yep, they're pirates, no doubt about it.
Harrr!
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10-20-2006, 21:49
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The patch you are refering to is called the Calico Jack. Last I knew the patch stood for "Ready and willing to to go into harms way".
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10-21-2006, 06:28
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Calico Jack: John Rackams notoriety as a pirate captain is attributed more to the colorful clothes he wore and the female crewmembers he lead than any notable conquests.
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10-21-2006, 08:53
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I've seen allot of " Morale patches" on body armour over the last couple years.
With so much velcro on our kit and uniforms now, its kinda a novelty.
At my last duty site there was a customized patch that was made up. At the one previous we had "Team America, F%^* Yea" patches made up. still have mine on my kit. We gave a bunch of them to some GI's we were working with. When some of them started putting them on their ACUs and wearing them around camp...the COC had to say "Whoa, don't wear that shit in garrison".
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10-23-2006, 17:24
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Skulls, devils and evil smiley faces are all fine and dandy when your only job is shooting bad guys in the face. They're a potential liability (IMO) when you're trying to establish and build rapport. Tailoring your equipment to the mission has taken on an expanded meaning in this age of Velcro-individuality.
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10-23-2006, 18:38
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..."America, F%^* Yea"
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That was our class motto at SOPC-1, class 10-04.
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10-23-2006, 19:01
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Team America
"That was our class motto at SOPC-1, class 10-04"
That was also our team motto in Fallujah 05' 
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10-23-2006, 21:09
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That was our class motto at SOPC-1, class 10-04.
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And yet it seems like only yesterday....
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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10-24-2006, 00:33
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That was our class motto at SOPC-1, class 10-04.
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That's better then ours. "When in doubt, choke them out"...Class 11-04. Ahh that was so long ago 
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10-24-2006, 04:12
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And yet it seems like only yesterday....
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Not hardly Sir, not hardly...
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10-24-2006, 07:35
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The best novelty patches I saw in Iraq were on a bunch of bearded guys with long hair in modified DCU's who were also wearing REI Monarch boots. I have compiled a list by memory:
An Area 51 patch
A smiley face possessing three eyes
A shitbag tab
However, a funnier instance at this particular firebase were the SF guys with sterilized uniforms who I recognized by name from a recently viewed National Geographic Documentary sold to me from an Iraqi vendor.
Last edited by racing_snake; 10-24-2006 at 07:39.
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10-24-2006, 12:00
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And yet it seems like only yesterday....
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LOL
Wonder what the record is?
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He knows only The Cause.
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