Ebay Rip...question...

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Originally posted by longnine009



Your icon looks like a military insignia. What unit is it?

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Longnine,
I didn't answer this earlier as I thought TW would, but his avatar is a common grateful dead icon, and terrapin station is one of the groups better known albums.
Don

MF,
Of course the 25th infantry division ("tropic lightning") had many units where a lightning bolt was incorporated in the design. ie 425th support bttn , two thirds of the way down this page, had blue/red and a lightning bolt:
http://www.25thida.com/units3.html#Armor
I think there was an armor unit with a triangle and a simple blue/red background with a lightning type divide between the fields and a white tank, but haven't been able to find it in some brief searches.
Don

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Originally posted by SFDukie

MF,
Of course the 25th infantry division ("tropic lightning") had many units where a lightning bolt was incorporated in the design. ie 425th support bttn , two thirds of the way down this page, had blue/red and a lightning bolt:
http://www.25thida.com/units3.html#Armor
I think there was an armor unit with a triangle and a simple blue/red background with a lightning type divide between the fields and a white tank, but haven't been able to find it in some brief searches.
Don

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The skull is what attracted my eye. I think what I probably saw were individual soldiers who had sewn the Grateful Dead icon onto their jungle fatigues or possibly their helmet cover. Absolutely not authorized, but Vietnam wasn't exactly a by-the-book war and troops in-country often rebelled through subtle means such as this; the peace symbol was also very common. NCOs and superior officers often (or usually) considered the practice relatively harmless, a means of blowing off steam, and looked the other way. I carried a dove of peace and peace symbol dog tag in addition to my regular ID tags. FWIW, I was in Americal (23rd Inf) Division in I Corps (northernmost Area of Operations near the DMZ).