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No, you want the thread to die, stop posting in it.

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I dont care if the thread dies. We are finally getting somewhere.

Hell maybe I will learn something, but contribute or quit posting.

I contributed plenty. You posting about something that you can't possibly understand is completely counterproductive to this thread.

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posted 2:13p, 10/21/10



On both shoulders. If you are an underclassman or a whitebelt contract cadets you would have a patch representing your branch of service on one shoulder.

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Thats the only one I found.

Except possibly the picture at the front, but even thats a maybe with your own flair added to it.

Which by the way could be seen, in the wrong circles of course, as quite derogatory.





[This message has been edited by OverR (edited 10/26/2010 3:05p).]

What the crap are you talking about. I edited the image to hide her identity, and the sick face represents my feelings about the black boots.

You should quit while you are behind.

Ok so 1.5 real contributions.

Anyways this argument could go on forever. Ill ignore the rest of your posts until they are semi substantive.

And as soon as you spend your years in the Corps and earn your boots I'll start listening to what you have to say.

Just like you did the boot girl eh?


Damnit, MUST NOT REPLY TO TROLLS.

Again, what the crap are you talking about?

"Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

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Hell maybe I will learn something...

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You've had ample opportunity......

And ignored them all.

"It's only a flesh wound!"

Well, much to my surprise, this thread has gone on long enough for me to travel from College Station to California for a week and finally back home halfway around the world.

I'm glad to see that the Corps of Cadets and the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band are still in great shape. However, there were a number of things I was disappointed to see. The chick with the ugly boots actually pales in comparison to the most offensive thing I saw while I was in B/CS. That would be a Sergebutt who skipped doing the all-years joint B-Company hump-it because she was having a meltdown and chatting with her mother about who said what about her on Facebook. I was ready to lay a dose of Chopper Reid on her after watching that (sorry about the NSFW youtube link). How in the heck could somebody who completed their Streetfighter Semester give a damn about what anybody said about them on FB? And prioritize a chat with mum over a rare chance to hump-it with BG Ramirez, Skinardis, et. al. In my mind, that was Effed.

So, here are some photos I took from that weekend.

Bugle Rank looking Uniform


BQ Zip looking NOT so uniform


Officers of the Day looking great


The new uniform for girls on campus


And lastly, with respect to the shade of the cadet's non-uniform boots. Here's a picture of my boots which were the darkest in my BQ Class. They were also one of the first boxes I opened after my move to make sure they weren't damaged during shipping.

My boots were red mahogany as well, nowhere near black though.

If you want to stand out, do it with your spurs!

Mine were pretty dark too, to bad you can't get these spurs anymore

lose some weight you toads!

Yep, still not a fan of her boots.

Those non-reg girls, though, I do approve.

Aggie Revenge, did you get those boots at Cavenders in the kid section?

EAD BQ!

No, I was a poor zip. Had to buy through Victors.

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To complicate things more, prior service Army guys often wear their last Army unit patch instead of the ROTC patch.

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Cadets who were prior service can wear Shoulder Sleeve Insignia - Former Wartime Service ("combat patches" on their right sleeve in lieu of the goofy A&M patch. Cadets can't simply wear the patch of a unit they were once in. Go to war before you're a cadet? I'm ok with you wearing a combat patch.

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I dare any one of you to walk up to her and condemn her for her "fashion statement".

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You're posting on the military forum. 90% of the people here have, and continue to do so, get paid to enforce discipline across a formation. I/we/they make face-to-face corrections daily, often on issues much more emotional than failure to obey standards for the wear of the uniform.

Thanks for setting the record straight on patches...though I thoroughly disagree on the A&M patch. I like it.

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Go to war before you're a cadet? I'm ok with you wearing a combat patch.

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Sir,

When I went through Aggieland, a few of my classmates (who ended up commissioning) were prior service infantry and wore their regimental affiliation on their cadet uniform. What are your thoughts on this?

You outrank me, Sir.

I can't think of a good argument against wearing regimental affiliation, especially given the fact that Texas State Guard guys wear the MP insignia and contracted cadets can wear their branch insignia on their right chest, but I think it's silly. As a cadet you can't be affiliated with a regiment, because you don't have an ERB/ORB or a 4187 listing the affiliation. But I guess it's no different than throwing on a combat patch.

The Texas A&M patch is goofy, IMO, because it is worn like a combat patch. Did we go to war with Texas A&M? Not likely. Better just to not wear a patch on the right arm, I think.

I thought you were a LTC.

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The Texas A&M patch is goofy, IMO, because it is worn like a combat patch. Did we go to war with Texas A&M? Not likely. Better just to not wear a patch on the right arm, I think.

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A&M has been around since 1876, and I suspect the AMC patch may have started around the time of ROTC in the 1920s.

How long has the combat patch been on the right arm of U.S. Army uniforms?

My point is that A&M uniforms are little changed since 1920. I have no idea how long a combat patch on the right arm has been used in the army.

Google seems to confirm that the wearing of a combat patch on the right sleeve began after WWII. So the A&MC patch on the right pre-dates that.

Even now, it appears to me that the combat patch is worn below the shoulder on the right sleeve, below the United States flag. So the A&M patch is where the Flag is on a normal uniform. One might say a combat patch would go below the A&M patch to be consistent.

Which makes a bit of sense. The Corps is not an United States unit, it is a University level unit.

A trip to the Corps Center could clear all this up..i might have to stop by after my classes tomorrow.

Looking through the Cushing Library stuff on FLCKR, it appears that no patches at all were worn on the day-to-day uniforms pre-WWII. These shirts often had an "ROTC" pocket patch. But it seems common that the class A (Ike jacket) had a patch on the right shoulder.

In the early days, it was a 5 pointed star with T E X A S in between the points of the star. Seems like it might have been about WWII or shortly after that it went to the A&MC patch that looks like today's A&MU.

FDR's visit to A&M in 1937. Looks like the cadet to FDR's right (our left) has the 5-pointed star. Note also the pipe handrail in front of FDR so he could pull himself up.

There was also the AGGIE patch that was worn. I had it on one my shoulders for my A's coat my butt and zip year

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lose some weight you toads!

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Heh...you can see my before and after the Corps weight nicely there, graduated 1 semester post Corps...also got married in that time period...I blame the wife for fattening me up.

If I remember ROTC Advanced Camp pretty much every college had a school patch worn on the "combat patch" side.

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I dare any one of you to walk up to her and condemn her for her "fashion statement".

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I'm going to take a wild guess here, but odds are 99% of the individuals on this thread would walk up to said zip, and AFTER she saluted them, would not hesitate to comment...and would have a right to do so.

Did anyone see her this Saturday?