Blood group on dog tags or on a Velcro patch on your arm, neither matters because both will be ignored and you will be cross matched anyway.
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Velcro ID badges and MTP
- Thread starter Interrupto Bastado
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Blood group on dog tags or on a Velcro patch on your arm, neither matters because both will be ignored and you will be cross matched anyway.
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Trusty Adjusty
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Currently in theatre, from what I've seen, the only people wearing them that could possibly argue value for them are aircrew and MERT teams - who to be fair only wear small ones and even then only affixed to their UBACs not MTP. Every squaddie I have seen with any form of patch id has always been on their Osprey, never on MTP - again, it is usually the designated ISAF patch with a small afghan flag and maybe a blood group.
The only chompers wearing custom patches with all manner of useless ****e on them, including Union Jacks in a vast array of tones, ZAP numbers, Ranks etc are ironically those personnel least likely to go outside the wire. I'm ashamed to say a lot of Techies think it is "cool" - it isnt, you look a c**t. There is no uniformity to the info on these patches and as such they look a bag of ****e.
If you want one made by the jinglies with your name, service, section on it etc for your bag then - a bit cabbagey -but fine, if you are not likely to be engaged by enemy fire, IED's etc then don't bother with the MTP ones, you'll look a right t**t.
The only chompers wearing custom patches with all manner of useless ****e on them, including Union Jacks in a vast array of tones, ZAP numbers, Ranks etc are ironically those personnel least likely to go outside the wire. I'm ashamed to say a lot of Techies think it is "cool" - it isnt, you look a c**t. There is no uniformity to the info on these patches and as such they look a bag of ****e.
If you want one made by the jinglies with your name, service, section on it etc for your bag then - a bit cabbagey -but fine, if you are not likely to be engaged by enemy fire, IED's etc then don't bother with the MTP ones, you'll look a right t**t.
Interrupto Bastado
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Good replies.
From the feedback I'm getting it's only your Osprey that blood group designator benefits from, and even then it's not absolutely required. The MOLLE fittings and multiple Osprey attachments and pouches seem to be able to be configured in many different ways.
Last thing I want to be doing is walking around looking like a throbber.
Thanks for the replies.
From the feedback I'm getting it's only your Osprey that blood group designator benefits from, and even then it's not absolutely required. The MOLLE fittings and multiple Osprey attachments and pouches seem to be able to be configured in many different ways.
Last thing I want to be doing is walking around looking like a throbber.
Thanks for the replies.
UlsterExile
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You hit the nail right on the head. This is something you want to avoid unless your on patrol with all the gear and taking on terry, then you can have what ever you like attached to you IMHO.