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Originally Posted by Aoresteen
I found this crest in an Army/Navy store. I have never seen it before. It seems to be a 1/10th Group Bad Tölz crest of sorts. Anyone know what it is?
Thanks!
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I love mysteries!!!
Here is what I found
http://www.usarmygermany.com/Units/H...20ABN.htm#ODA7
Reading further on this site, there was an email posted from the designer of the patch (Who some of you may know, shoot....he or some of the other team members might be members here!) explaining the history of the patch.
(Source: Email from Richard Hayse, SFODA-9 and 7, 1976-1978)
The pin you identify as SADM(?) was in fact the unofficial team patch for SFODA-7, the SADM team at Bad Toelz. I was the team medic and designed the patch and had them made in Augsburg at a tailor shop in 1977. The shape is that of a SADM, the black/red/gold stripes of the German flag found on the 1/10th beret flash, the lightening bolts from the SF SSI, the dagger is the SS dagger for the SS Junkerschule (officer's school) originally at Bad Toelz with the nuclear symbol in the hilt, and the Alpha-Beta-Gamma symbols are for the three types of radiation released from a nuclear explosion. I still have two of the original patches and was surprised to find that an enamel pin had been made from the design. SFODA-7 at that time was made up of CPT Flavin, 1LT Matherly, MSG Brakeman, SFC Johnson, SFC Geiger, SSG Hayse, SFC Camus, SFC Pruett, SSG Hering, SSG McCann, SSG Moore and SSG Detrick.
F. Richard Hayse