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He collects patches designed by military personnel to commemorate secret blackops projects. Not the mainstream military, with its bars and ribbons and medals, but the secret or black projects world. Apr 21, 2008 many military programs are black or so top secret that they appear only as a single line item in the department of defenses expense report. Military patches part 4 these patches and many, many more are all on sale at mcgrogans. An art book that presents peculiar shoulder patches created for the weird and. Jun 30, 2009 i first learned about these while conducting research for my book blank spots on the map, which is about state secrecy. The new york times has an article up about trevor paglens book i could tell you but then you would have to be destroyed by me.
Military symbols are frequently replete with heraldic imagerysome rooted in history, others based on contemporary popular arts that feature comic charactersbut these enigmatic dark. News from around the world about bigfoot,ghost,ufos and odd things. I could tell you but then you would have to be destroyed by. Rare patches bring out some photos sign in to follow this. These patches, representing classified projects and operations, were worn by participants in a particular.
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Apr 01, 2008 i could tell you but then you would have to be destroyed by me. Macvsogmilitary assistance command, vietnamspecial operations group later renamed studies and observations groupwas the elite military unit of the vietnam war, so secret that its existence was denied by the u. Then there are bases on remote islands tracking objects in. Mission patches are used by military and space organizations to identify, symbolize and describe a missiona s objectives and its crew.
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