Uniform Decorations

Here at the Joint Visitor's Bureau, our job involves handling logistics (billeting, transportation, security, etc) for incoming VIP's.

We also play a lot of foosball.

So, we decided it would be cool to design our own patch, in keeping with the AF's roll-your-own tradition of squadron patches.

The resulting patch came out looking pretty sweet. The red, white & blue guy in the middle is a foosball player, with a white foosball at his feet. It's a little hard to tell in the pic, but it says Kabul in the red space. And the words across the bottom are our JVB motto (in Afghan national colors - black, red & green): Just Very Busy. And honestly, we are pretty busy some of the time, particularly when lots of VIP's are coming in. And some days, well, some days our foosball tournaments last longer than others.

It would have been even cooler if we'd been able to put a coffee cup into the foosball guy's hands, but I didn't think of that until later. Plus, he doesn't have hands.

Anyway, it's fun to have a uniform that accommodates patches. I should admit it's not exactly authorized in the formal sense... but there's also no reg I could find saying I can't wear it. And in certain situations I'll probably take it off, just to be safe. So far, though, nobody's objected. And if they don't like it, what are they going to to - send me to Afghanistan?