SPECIAL FORCES - Rare Patch - SEAL TEAM 2 - US NAVY DIVER - Vietnam War - V.497 For Sale
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SPECIAL FORCES - Rare Patch - SEAL TEAM 2 - US NAVY DIVER - Vietnam War - V.497:
$92.00
US Special Forces, US NAVY - SEAL TEAM 1 - SEAL TEAM ONE
NAVY DIVER - SCUBA - TEAM 2 - US SPECIAL FORCES
Diver - Elite Special Forces - United States Navy
Measures - 4 inches in diameter (10 cms) - Large Newspaper Backed Diver, Shoulder Operations
US NAVY - Special Operations
In February 1966, a small SEAL Team detachment arrived in Vietnam to conduct direct actions missions.
Operating from Nha Be, (Saigon) into the Rung Sat Special Zone, this detachment signaled the beginning of a SEAL presence that would eventually include 8 SEAL platoons in country on a continuing basis.
SEALs also served as advisors for Provincial Reconnaissance Units and the Lein Doc Nguio Nhia, the Vietnamese SEALs. The last SEAL platoon departed Vietnam on Dec 7, 1971.
The last SEAL advisor left in March class="MsoNormal">VNBP
VNBP – (VietNam Backing Paper) - VNBP - Vietnam War, in-country made - Tailor, periodVietnamese backing paper to rear. VNBP relates to the backing paper used byVietnam War, in-country tailors making patches for US Military Units.
Used across avariety or patches it almost always represents the highest quality tailor madepatches.
Varyinglanguages were used, Vietnamese, English and French. VNBP patches are among therarest and most collectable of patches.
Titles of Distinction
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
- Dist. Military Pilot USSR
- Dist. Military Navigator USSR
- Dist. Test Pilot USSR
- Dist. Test Navigator USSR
- Distinguished Pilot USSR
- Dist. Navigator USSR
Orders of Distinction
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov
- Order of Ushakov
- Order of Kutuzov
- Order of Nakhimov
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of Red Banner of Labor
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Star
- Order Service to Motherland
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Honor
- Order of Personal Courage
- Order of Glory
- Order of Labor Glory
- Order of Mother Heroine
- Order of Maternal Glory