Military Assistance Patches 5

Information extracted from the book "US ARMY PATCHES"  by Barry Jason Stein

USED BY PERMISSION

USACE Utility Div

The castle represents the engineer branch of service.  The inscription is that of the unit's designation.

Mil Fireman
 

The letters "MP," normally white and associated with military police, are colored red -- a color associated with fire departments.

Trench Mortor CW

The significance of the design is unknown.

TTC

Yellow and brick red are the colors of the Transportation Corps.  The transportation branch of service insignia is depicted and symbolizes transportation by air (the winged wheel), rail, and sea.  Tabs indicating areas in which the terminals operated were worn above the patch.  There were twelve different tabs in all.

Arctic Trans Gp
Greenland
 

Approved for local wear only.

The polar bear represents the geographical location of the group.  The Transportation Corps branch of service insignia and the colors brick red and yellow, along with the inscription, indicate the unit's designation.

TCMTS

Approved for local wear only.

The letters "TC" and "MTS" signify "Transportation Corps Motor Transportation Service."  The red ball was an identification marking used on vehicles.

Philippines Abn Det

The head of a water buffalo symbolizes the Philippine Islands.  Red and gold recall the Spanish heritage of the islands, and the parachute denotes the nature of the unit as airborne.  The inscription is the unit's designation and incorporates a saying which, translated from Tagalog, reads "God's will be done."  In the vernacular, the same phrase also translates as "I don't care."

 USDBSORT

Approved for local wear only.

The origin and significance of the design is unknown.

 TankCrew1stAD

Approved for local wear only.

Yellow and green are colors associated with armor.

OTAide

The design of the insignia depicts a caduceus, the branch device of the Medical Corps.  Red, white, and blue are the national colors.

 OTApprintice

The monogram letters "OT" stand for occupational therapy.

 USACNC

The Maltese cross shown in the center of the design was adopted for wear by the Knights Hospitalers (a military-religious order of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem), a group established in the eleventh century dedicated to caring for pilgrims to the Holy Land.

 USATC

The design for the insignia was created in 1944 by Doctor Cornelius B. Philip, a major in the Sanitary Corps. As Doctor Philip explained,"...a suitable and colorful patch could be derived from the classical Typhus 'red cloak' clinical  reference to the flushed diffusion of red rash over the body in advanced cases of the Typhus group..."  The monogram "TC" stands for "Typhus Commission."

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