Ed Rooney
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I have to admit that I have a weakness for flight jacket nametags. While I don't fault anyone else for the practice, I just find that I could not wear a jacket or whatever with someone else's wings. Whenever I find a new maker, I order one or two tags with my own wings and name.
I was an Aeroscout Observer and a helicopter crew chief in the Army Guard, so my badge is the "Army Aviation Badge", formerly known as the "Aircraft Crewman Badge" or Aircrew badge, but the senior one with the star on top. I recently calculated that I was about 2 months short of being awarded the "Master" version with the wreath around the star. Oh, well.
In general I prefer the embroidered nametags. Back in the day I ordered a few from the Wings store in Daleville, Alabama, which is now called the Hangar. They do a black cordura nylon nametag with white wings and print that was very popular among Army crews for years. The cordura is the same fabric that they used for their pubs bags and kneeboards. I also like the Gibson & Barnes embroidered tags. I recently had one made in the NASA style, that is, Royal Blue with silver wings and border. I believe NASA gets a lot of their stuff at G&B. Nametags4u does a good one, and I ordered a Cavalry tag from them.
For leather tags, I recently had one made in the style that Naval Aviators are using for their G-1s, from a shop in Pensacola called Wings and Things. It was well made, and much better than their standard embossed leather tags. There's another company operating under like 3 different names (flightbadge, militarynames and something else) that does a good job with standard leather tags, as well as the 2-layer A-2 tags. I got a nice tag for my G-1 at Flight Suits Ltd back in 1990 or so, but their new ones seem to have horrible artwork, at least for my badge. It's not even symmetrical.
Apparently a company near Texas A&M does nametags, but I can't find them.
I was an Aeroscout Observer and a helicopter crew chief in the Army Guard, so my badge is the "Army Aviation Badge", formerly known as the "Aircraft Crewman Badge" or Aircrew badge, but the senior one with the star on top. I recently calculated that I was about 2 months short of being awarded the "Master" version with the wreath around the star. Oh, well.
In general I prefer the embroidered nametags. Back in the day I ordered a few from the Wings store in Daleville, Alabama, which is now called the Hangar. They do a black cordura nylon nametag with white wings and print that was very popular among Army crews for years. The cordura is the same fabric that they used for their pubs bags and kneeboards. I also like the Gibson & Barnes embroidered tags. I recently had one made in the NASA style, that is, Royal Blue with silver wings and border. I believe NASA gets a lot of their stuff at G&B. Nametags4u does a good one, and I ordered a Cavalry tag from them.
For leather tags, I recently had one made in the style that Naval Aviators are using for their G-1s, from a shop in Pensacola called Wings and Things. It was well made, and much better than their standard embossed leather tags. There's another company operating under like 3 different names (flightbadge, militarynames and something else) that does a good job with standard leather tags, as well as the 2-layer A-2 tags. I got a nice tag for my G-1 at Flight Suits Ltd back in 1990 or so, but their new ones seem to have horrible artwork, at least for my badge. It's not even symmetrical.
Apparently a company near Texas A&M does nametags, but I can't find them.
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