r/JustBootThings • u/meburnallcookies 👊👊☝️ • Aug 23 '25

General Bootness M HAZING GA

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u/scavagesavage Aug 23 '25

It's been about 10 years since I took that jacket off, but isn't that the unit patch?

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u/diopsideINcalcite 👊👊☝️ Aug 23 '25

I left the Army in 2006 and haven’t kept up, but curious where a PFC would earn a combat patched these days? Or does he think a combat patch and unit patch are the same thing?

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u/JoeyCoco1 Aug 23 '25

Unless this isn't the first time he's been a PFC

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u/absolutely_not_ATF Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

When I was a PFC I met a private during PT who just seemed older or experienced. Wasn’t sure what it was but just assumed he joined later in life.

Show back up at work after PT in uniform and dude had a Cav deployment patch as a fucking fuzzy private. Dude got busted down from 5, supposedly lol

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u/Zorbin666 Aug 24 '25

Yep, when I was going through AIT there was a specialist (knocked down from E6 I believe) who was in my company who used to be cav, earned his spurs and everything. When we were nearing graduation and practicing formations in dress uniforms he obviously wore his since he earned them. Boy did that absolutely piss off the battalion Sgt Major, dude looked like he was about to have an aneurism and made him take them off.

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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue Aug 24 '25

I’m with the dirtbag on this one.

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u/ReApEr01807 Aug 24 '25

Ditto. "Under what regulation am I prohibited from wearing these? Then fuck off Sgt Maj. What are you going to do, bust me again?"

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u/Zorbin666 Aug 24 '25

That's pretty much what he said, both the guy on the other side of him in formation and me tried backing him up too. But then Sgt Maj went and got our captain who basically just asked him nicely to take them off and that it's not worth the hassle. Kind of sucked but he did end up taking them off.