M51 field jacket 101 airborne patch missing help

[Aragorn243]

I have to say you have confused me.

Given what you've just said, then the US veterans of 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) - a brigade is a lot smaller than a division - with which we were once attached in Vietnam should wear a USARV patch instead of their brigade patch. But, they didn't and don't.

Not pretending to explain all possibilities of combat patches. Just the one possibility being explored here to explain the 2nd Army patch. A separate brigade is sufficiently large enough to qualify as a command unit for the wearing of a combat patch. With the rules established in 1945, it is the smallest unit. The rules changed in 2014 to allow units as small as a company.

When serving under multiple commands, it is the soldiers choice which patch they wear.

My particular company was under the command of the 79th ARCOM which was a reserve command in the states. We had no individual company patch. During Desert Storm we were as a company, assigned first to the 3rd Army and later to the 22nd SUPCOM so we have the option of wearing either.