old style Red and black patrol patches

[Mr. Boyce 13]

. . . you know, these are kind of groovy. It would be great to see them return.

[Shriscov 10]

In the first British and American handbooks there were kangaroo patrols (Cooo-eee!) and I think that would be a neat name. I've heard kangaroos never go backward.

...but I'll let the patrol pick its own name.

[Stosh 3452]

Some of our patrols over time have used the red/black patches AND the red/black patrol flags. Look nice and the matching flag is preferred over the "homemade" ones.

 

Stosh

[desertrat77 1144]

I liked collecting the old red/black patrol patches long ago.

 

At their peak, there were approx 60 different ones (I think). I managed to collect fiftysomething....

 

Once an old scouter heard I collected them, and proceeded to give me a box that contained about 300, the remaining stock of a council office. He bought them during the transition to the multi-color patrol patches of the seventies, and was glad to pass them to me.

 

All told, there were probably 30 different patches, alot of dups...not too long ago, I found a troop that enjoyed wearing the old red/black. So I gave them the box and they took a bunch so they'd have a stock on hand for future patrol members. Very cool to see those old patches around after so many years.

 

Though I didn't think much of my old seventies patrol patches when I was scout (panther, flying eagle, fox, antelope), I went back and collected them as well. Not nearly as many choices as the red/black (was there about 25?) but they are very colorful and funky now to look at.(This message has been edited by desertrat77)