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Originally Posted by Irishsquid
Don't know if it's correct or not, but I'm told that 20th SFG(A) used to have a solid blue flash. The diagonal red stripe was "awarded," by 7th SFG(A) as they are the active duty component responsible for the same AOR/mission.
Once again, I don't know if it's true or not...that's just how it was explained to me. Seemed strange, since that would mean 19th and 20th Groups had the same flash before...
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All* USAR and ARNG SFGs wore the blue w/white border flash, prior to 1967
* 2nd, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th SF Groups, and the 38th SF Company.
By 1967 all but the 11th, 12th, 19th, and 20th Grps, and the 38th Co. had been inactivated
In '67 the 11th switch to what they currently use, but without the white border, which was added in 1992.
That same year the 19th started wearing a Naugahyde flash (aqua or blue).
In 1972 the 12th went to it's distinctive lightening bolt flash.
The 20th wore a couple of unauthorized flashes before being authorized it's current flash. The red bend represents it's association with 7th Grp, where the 20th Grps, AD Advisors came from
38th Company got it's own flash in 1976, the year it was inactivated.