Aggy USA patch

[Dwtxex]

Can anyone tell me why the aggy's patch of the American flag is backwards on the sleeve of the uniform they are wearing today. Is there a reason or are the aggys just backwards as usual ?

 

[Horn_83]

That's the correct way to wear a flag patch when it is on the right shoulder.

 

[TheGallopinGoose]

It goes back to the days of having flag-bearers during wartime (think Civil War). When you're moving forward with the flag, the side attached to the flagpole (i.e.- the side of the flag with the blue field) will be in front, with the rest of the flag trailing behind. Now, of course, flag-bearers are all but nonexistent during combat, so the flag is sewn on backwards to simulate it moving forward just like if a flag-bearer was carrying the flag. (By the way, the flag has to be on the right shoulder because "the flag of the United States of America should hold the position of superior prominence, in advance of the audience, and in the position of honor at the clergyman's or speaker's right as he faces the audience.")

The Link

...but, of course, this is Squeeze Army we're talking about here.

 

[l00p]

It is the way that the real Army or military wears it as well. So in continuing the dream and farce they are a military school they are prob. doing that. They want to look as stoopit as they can on national tv as they don't get on it very often nor for very long.

 

[FireRC]

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