signals Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I was wondering where AF/Navy squadrons get their patches made from? Is there a vendor that can turn artwork into designs? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crushkill Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) It depends, sometimes the service will do it in house, but for special ones (usually smaller units) the unit will find a manufacturer and have them made on their own. A simple google search is usually how we find a place, just google something like "custom unit patches" and do a little digging. Usually once we find a guy we stick with the same provider forever just because the relationship is there, but to my knowledge there isn't a program in place to officially have patches made. That being said, I'm Army, so maybe the flyboys have some other deal worked out. Edited March 2, 2017 by crushkill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flyboyf18 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Here in Canada, us Flyboys had a very similar system. IIRC the 'official Squadron' patches were issued to us, if we needed more we paid for them. On the MP Sqn we had crew patches which we designed and bought by ourselves. We found or had a local manufacturer who got all our business. At the Test Sqn it was the same, we had Sqn unique name patches and again there was an initial issue if more required you coughed up the $$. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
signals Posted March 3, 2017 Author Share Posted March 3, 2017 Would anyone of you guys happen to know of any manufacturer that I can use? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FM-Whip Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 58 minutes ago, signals said: Would anyone of you guys happen to know of any manufacturer that I can use? http://www.aeroemblem.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thegoodsgt Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 I followed crushkill's suggestion. I Googled... custom military patches …and found: http://www.omlpatches.com/https://www.custompatches.net/gallery-military-patches.html There are many more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
signals Posted March 3, 2017 Author Share Posted March 3, 2017 thanks guys! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ikar Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 From my experience in the A.F., at least in the Pacific, squadrons will mostly get their patches made either in whatever country they are in or a country they visit or know someone who flies into a certain base where they have been before and have a deal with. The initial patches may be from the government sources but this way it's cheaper and quicker, and custom creations are easy to get. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aircommando130 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 When I was stationed at Kadena we'd go to a place called Tigers....they made some awesome crew/aircraft patches. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ikar Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 When were you there and what did you do? Our guys would normally get hold of our det. in Korea and have them brought back during rotation or if there was a greater need, send them back on the Ryuku Rickshaw as it made its way home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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