The Neptune Warrior

(This is a page I am continually adding to. Each will be listed throughout the book as an add-in. I didn’t really want to publish, but thought I could get feedback and other ideas from readers)

I love morale patches. When I was in they were far and few. I remember some of the pilots in the desert had them, but it wasn’t really until velcro on uniforms became the norm that they really got popular. I think this was for several reasons:
1. Velcro allowed you to take off a less politically correct patch off when your chain of command came around. You could wear the patch and if certain officers were making their rounds with the troops you could quickly take them off.
2. The price of patches and access to custom patch makers via the internet made it where a troop could order a few patches at a reasonable price and reasonable numbers. Now you no longer had to order in lots of 100, you could order only 10.
3. We got so creative and expressive. This is just a newer version of what we have always done to express ourselves from tattoos to those iron on shirts we wore back in the 80’s

In our dive community we make most of our moral patches that are either sewn on their jacket or are velcroed on the packs so they can be swapped out. Some are events, some are things we’ve said or are commonly said to troops. Some are offensive, some are hard to understand outside the military or our dive community, all tell a story.

Today you can go on the internet and purchase morale patches from various sources. I still prefer the ones that I design for our divers. They tell more of the story.

Embrace the Suck
Gary Terrill and I in Spangdahlem Germany in 1988 we out setting up a land navigation course. We were out behind what we called the Witches Gate in the manuever area. This was the area we did all of our ground combat training in.. It was pissing rain, absolutly miserable yet we were having the time of our life.
We Support Single Moms

IGY6
I Got Your Six. This is huge for the veteran community. The term actually comes from the Air Force. Pilots used it to let their wingman know that there wasn’t an enemy lurking behind them. Direction is given in reference to a clock. Twelve o’clock is always the direction of travel. Three oclock is to the right, nine is to the left, with six being directly behind.

RED- Remember Everyone Deployed
F-BOMB
Zero FCKS Given I
One Ass to Risk. Going Solo. Lone Wolf, One Man Band. With all the work within tribes and living as a community, some just have to spend time alone.
Just The Tip
NKA
Sh#t Creek Survivor
My Mom Thinks I’m Special
Bad Decision Make Great Stories
Golf Foxtrot Yankee
SNAFU
Come and Take It
FUBAR
Morale Stops Here
Two is ONe and One is None
A$$hole Merit Badge
Semper Gumby
One Team One Fight
Whisky Tango Foxtrot
One Team One Fight
When I was stationed at Ft Dix New Jersey I was part of a special platoon within the US Army Air Base Defence Command.

Hip Pocket Training

Note To Self

Exploding Ruck Sack

IOWA March

Tribal