Independent Army Brigade--The 76th (part three)
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 16:08
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Continuation of this thread:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=25503&m=417376#417376
Discussion thread for those interested in marching at D*C as an Independent Soldier. Please read the previous two threads before posting if you are new to this. Thank you, and we hope to have many more people involved!
We have discussed many things so far, and I will try to get them all in this first post.
The name, first off...the 76th was mentioned by Zoe in a deleted scene from the pilot episode, so I thought it would be a good Brigade designation, and it has been accepted by everyone who had an opinion on it. BabyWithThePower has designed some wonderful patches, and we are trying to decide which to use. He is also in contact with a company that will create these for us.
This is from him on the last thread.
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I'm glad you like them. I'll let everyone know what kind of deal I can work out with the patch place. At worst, I'm thinking $2 a patch. Once I send chunks of them to the contributors, you can charge whatever you want for them, but once we decide on a quantity and what everybody's going to help offset for me, than just tell me how much you can/want to contribute and you'll get the equivalent amount of patches.
ArtCat is doing a wonderful job with the knitted chainmail sleeves:
And some may be building actual mail sleeves...which will look very good!
I have thrown together a "first-draft" of the red vests worn by the soldiers, but there is still a bit of debate as to the stripes.
Let's see...the main gun for the average soldier will be the H&K G36 airsoft version, which can be found on ebay, or on www.airsplat.com, a link provided by Sister. The prices are quite reasonable, even with shipping.
I know I am missing a lot. Please feel free to correct me or carry your own contributions forward.
I am very pleased with the response to this, and happy that so many of you are interested in marching as Independents, too! Thank you all!
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Firsties!
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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
I didn't go in the dealer rooms much, so I can't tell you about them, but it was $20 each for the BDH signatures/photo op (you could take a pic of them for free, just not a pic with them).
Please tell me that if you pay the $20 you can get the signature AND take a picture with them. It would kinda suck to have an either/or situation.
Yes, for $20 you get a signature (and a picture if you didn't bring anything to sign) and a chance to take a pic with them. I have pics with the two from this year (Summer and Alan) on my MySpace ( http://www.myspace.com/supernova_412 ) and I keep meaning to scan in the autographs but I left them at my mom's house over Thanksgiving and can't get them back until Christmas. :\
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I'm moving this forward from the last thread, too. I know little of the layout of the military hierarchy, and put those decisions in the hands of the military people on this board.
CMH had this to say after my last post:
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Well for one thing, modern military doesn't wear a Brigade patch: They were a Division patch. Not sure how/if this will matter to anyone, because unless the word "Brigade" was used specifically we could easily assume that all references to the 76th was a reference to a Division number.
However, if we're dead set on Brigade, I would suggest to Babywiththepower that you look up the word "Regiment", the Chinese Military equivalent of Brigade.
I'll put forth for my own vote that we stick with having the patch represent our Division, and that we choose a Company of a Battalion of a Brigade of the 76th Division to represent. If this is cool with you Tristan, I could write up all of the nomenclature on it, give us a real identity. I think it's pretty much decided that you'd be the Company Commander, most likely making you a Captain (imagine that?). You could assign a First Sargeant and an XO of Lieutenant rank.
CMH, thank you for all that. I have no idea how many people we will actually have marching...will that impact any of the ideas you have as far as any of this goes?
Oh, and as far as being Captain...remember that Lieutenant from The Message? The one who "lost his arms?"...yeah, that would probably be me.
I was not planning on being in "charge" of anything other than trying to organize interested people. Thank you for the vote of confidence, though!______________________________________
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BWTP, those are some shiny patches. I prefer the oval or circular design to the hexagon one, but that is just me. The triangular one is nice, but may be too much since the Independent patch is already a triangle. Don't much care for the square. I'll gladly buy several when they are made (or in advance if need be) to insure I can get them in time to sew on & get the numbers needed to place the patch order.
Artcat, the chainmail sleeves look great so far.
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
BWTP, those are some shiny patches. I prefer the oval or circular design to the hexagon one, but that is just me. The triangular one is nice, but may be too much since the Independent patch is already a triangle. Don't much care for the square. I'll gladly buy several when they are made (or in advance if need be) to insure I can get them in time to sew on & get the numbers needed to place the patch order.
Thanks, I'll keep you posted.
I figure I'll move this foward as well:
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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Well for one thing, modern military doesn't wear a Brigade patch: They were a Division patch. Not sure how/if this will matter to anyone, because unless the word "Brigade" was used specifically we could easily assume that all references to the 76th was a reference to a Division number.
However, if we're dead set on Brigade, I would suggest to Babywiththepower that you look up the word "Regiment", the Chinese Military equivalent of Brigade.
I don't know how your unit worked, but I wore my Battalion patch in my sleeve (for awhile) and my Batallion crest on my beret. We changed to wearing the Group patch (for those that don't know Group is equvalent to Brigade). The only people that wore a Division patch were the ones assigned to the Division. I know it was different in units like the 1st AD, but it wasn't a blanket rule across the board. Pleanty of Battalions and Brigades had patches.
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And to move on completely form the last thread:
What MOS were you? Until I got to Bragg, it was Battalion crest on beret, and Brigade patches on the sleeve only if you'd been deployed with them.
EDIT: Okay, we've got this mostly worked through. I never wore a group patch because I wore a group flash instead. In the end, I guess we could be designated as the 76th Brigade, Battalion or Division, but I'll officially change my vote to Battalion since A) That's the kanji that BWTP has and B) That's probably the closest unit size that we'll have. We can all be part of (X) Company, 76th Infantry Battalion.
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Well, they got back to me faster than expected. Here's the prices based on the Hexagon patch (i needed to pick one to send them, doesn't mean it's the one we're going with) it was the smallest in size and therefore the cheapest.
Here's what the prices are:
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Qty. 100
3" Custom Embroidered Patches - $ 1.86 each
100% Embroidery
FREE – Artwork and revisions
FREE – Setup
FREE – UPS or DHL International Air Shipping
100% - On time delivery Guarantee
100% - Product Satisfaction Guarantee
100% - Price match Guarantee
(10) day production
Total Delivered $ 186.00
Qty. 200 3"
Custom Embroidered Patches - $ 1.25 each
100% Embroidery
FREE – Artwork and revisions
FREE – Setup
FREE – UPS or DHL International Air Shipping
100% - On time delivery Guarantee
100% - Product Satisfaction Guarantee
100% - Price match Guarantee
(10) day production
Total Delivered $ 250.00
Once you have approved your design, we will deliver your custom embroidered patches to you within 14 days.
So, it doesn't look too bad, and if we get enough people interested in them, we can order more for a reduction. Hell, 200 I think we could easily unload and it's double the patches for 34% more dough. Something to think about.
Here's a thought too, something we can work on once we know which BDHs are going to be at the Con, but if we could talk them into a group shot with all of us in full gear, we could take the pic, frame it with one of our patches and a brass plaque with something nice on it and send it to Joss. I'm a sentimental sod, so I think it's a good idea, even if it's just us sans BDHs. Something else to think about.
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Sorry, alot of moving here 
Sorry, updated the thread with the correct info. I got it ass backwards. Been up for 24 hours. No caffiene. Sorry.
And in answer, I was DISE Platoon, A. Co, 2d Bn, 66th MI GP.
I was a 96B, Tactical Intel Analyst. But while I was in I was also an 97B, Counter Intel, and SatCom (not sure the MOS designator).
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BWTP, that is not a bad deal at all! Count me in for a large chunk of those.
And I like the picture idea, too...with or without the BDH's. 
Thank you for that update!
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I think we can move 200 patches, easy, even if it isn't to people who march with us. I also like the idea of the group photo and a patch to send to Joss. Shiny!
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