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Inherent Resolve Patch

by Jonn Lilyea••49

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Who says they’re not getting things done in the war against ISIS? Look, they’ve got a patch and everything now. From the Army Times;

The Army’s patch features crossed scimitars, a palm wreath and stars. The scimitars, short swords with curved blades, are meant to symbolize the twin goals of the U.S.-led coalition: to defeat the Islamic State, also referred to as ISIL, and to restore stability in the region, according to Army documents.

The palm wreath is symbol of honor. While the stars and the buff-and-blue colors on the patch indicate the three-star command and the land, air and sea forces involved in the fight.

So what if they’ve spent millions of dollars to field four insurgents arrayed against the Islamic State, so what if the ISIS is making battlefield gains everyday. The troops have a patch. Maybe they should give them a tan beret, too. I’ll bet that whoever designed the patch gets a Bronze Star.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

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49 thoughts on “Inherent Resolve Patch”

    1. They named a Project after me ? I am curious though, why is there no symbol on the patch to represent the billions of dollars we (the US govt) wasted on training the Iraqi Army from 2004 to 2012.

        2. Might be!

          Someone should tell Tom the Author of that article that NOBODY REFERS TO ISIS AS ISIL except that douche nozzle he works for.

          It’s ISIS, Tommyboi. Got that?

          1. Douchenozzle got that nomenclature from the intel community. We little wannabe douchenozzles use it as the standard.

      2. Damn good point ! ! !
        but on the bright side we use 8 million dollar munitions on Dogs and Camels now and call them good hits Lol… now I understand what my Dad and uncles were talking about in Vietnam…

  3. Why doesn’t Obama and all his lackeys get it over with and simple bow down publicly and kiss the Arab’s asses. I served long ago, very long ago. I don’t know if I could wear this patch. Why not just give all the troops MP3 players with prerecorded Islamic prayer calls and those noises the women make with their tongues.

    1. this reminds me of a Patch that the Kuwait NG had a s a shoulder emblem.. I guess in this day and age of PC. this show all that we are sensitive to the Bad guys. 🙁

  5. This patch needs a Bar Sinister. The whole operation has been illegitimate from the get-go. What are the heraldic symbols for Slap Dash and On the Cheap?

  6. That patch has Spec8 Moerk written all over it.

    Lord knows she’s cruising for a not in country service BSM.

  8. ANNNNDDDD it’s time to bust out these beauties….

    http://www.camotech.com/Images/FISTER.jpg

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    http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bqOyx5yJL._SX522_.jpg

    http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2009/07/magnet_350.jpg

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    And the MOTHER OF THEM ALL!!!!

    http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0742/9831/products/1ce6e88eeac8b2331c57152476fc8f02_large.jpeg?v=1428201090

  9. I feel so much warmer and fuzzier on the inside. Are the U.S taxpayers going to get free patch out of the deal? Perhaps instead of a tax refund this year.

  10. The circle represents the endless nature of Islamic wanton violence. The palm wreaths, taken directly from the UN symbol, but short a leaf, represent the worldwide nature of that violence. The scimitars represent the Koran’s convert or die ultimatum. And the three stars represent Moe, Larry, and Curly.

  12. I thought the twin scimitars represented the personnel cuts and sequestration?
    the 3 stars are for the additional GOFO billet created to supervise less than a brigade’s worth of troops in theater. The majority of which are at the 3 star HQ.

  14. A military version of the same tomfoolery brought to you by the same inept social engineers currently occupying the White House and every golf course within 35 miles of Washington DC. I’ll have to look closer the next time Social Engineer 6 is wearing his big boy nomax flight jacket, and see if he has his patch on.

    2. That is the first damn acronym I’ve been able to figure out on the first try!

      I’ve been hanging around here too much!

  16. And if the people who get this piece of lime pie actually wear it in public, can we call them Lime Aides?

    Pinto Nag is right: it looks like something ISIS would wear, but I think it needs a bomb symbol in there or something… maybe a pile of UXOs.

  17. I couldn’t voluntarily wear it. Too much Saudi/Muzzie symbolism there, no American symbols at all. If forced to wear it due to being stationed there, it would be off my shoulder the instant I left the AO.
    I’d rather be written up for being out of uniform then wear THAT!

  18. Brought to you by the same fucking inbred idiots who thought drone operators sitting 8000 miles away in air-conditioned shack should get their own medal.

    Someone needs to take the Good Idea Fairy out back and beat the ever loving shit out of him/her.

  19. You know, if you move the image down just so much, so that you can’t see anything below where the ‘blades’ cross, they do look a lot like fairy wings.

    And from another perspective, the handles of those swoards are definitely phallic symbols.

    No, I don’t think I’d wear that patch, either. I have my own squadron jacket patch. That’s enough for me.

  20. I predict most Vets will feel the same way about this patch as they did about the proposed Drone Pilot’s Medal.

  22. WTF, why not just use the left over “Mission Accomplished” banner and save the money for something not necessary like a pay raise for the troops.

  24. Somewhere, someone got paid for a year to come up with this patch and will make O-7 for it. The Bronze Star is already in the awards process…

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