Importance of Military Flag Patches

With the advancements of weapons and technology in the military, the uniforms of the military personnel also changed a lot. In the joint forces of America, Flag patches has its own importance. There are five departments in the America armed forces including Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air force and Coast Guard. Each of these military departments’ men and women need to wear these flag patches on the right sleeves of their uniforms. Although the wearing uniforms or the training uniforms doesn’t need any flag patches. The military also specially ordered the services of custom embroidery digitizing in order to get the numerous patches according to their services like if the set troops ordered to take part in the UN peace keeping mission, they will have special patches of UN logo on their uniforms just to point them out as the neutral troops on the land.

Not only in the military, American flag patches also worn by the different government organizations liked police department and other patriotic organizations. But, if any athlete or sports team want to wear this flag patch, they will need to change it a little bit like you have to digitize forward facing or reverse field American flag. This is hardcore rule and could be dealt with serious court trials that’s why you will never see any athlete in the Olympics wearing the same patch as the American military personnel wears. The left side of the flag patch should be worn closest to the heart to show the patriotism and the love that you have towards your country. These types of small things also induced the love for the country among the next generations who always idolized their brave soldiers who fight for them so they can get a well sleep. This placement also has an important significance in the wars. It shows that soldier wearing it runs forward in the battle instead of running away from it. This gesture can be identified from the stripes on the patch that faces forward not back. Military personnel also use three types of flag patches which they get by special digitizing process including full-color flag, subdued flag and infrared flag patches.