Homage to previous service - X Marks the Scot

kiltedwolfman · #1 01-17-2010, 12:17 PM

I had an extra cap badge from the first regiment I served with, so thought it would make a nice sporran crest.
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As a current "tanker" I guess it can be said that you can take the tanker out of the infantry, but you can't take the infantry out of the tanker.

xena · #2 01-17-2010, 01:30 PM

Looks good.

You might be a zipperhead now, but once a SPUT*, always a SPUT.

(*SPUT = Self propelled Pop Up Target, a.k.a. Infantry.)

So, you were an Argie (good on ya! I was a Seaforth!), but what Regiment now? What armoured types are in Edmonchuck?

longhuntr74 · #3 01-17-2010, 03:02 PM

Very few US Army Regimental crests would make very good sporran badges I fear...the Brits and Canadians have a huge leg up on us I think...ours are too small and too much colored enamel. The new metal division and other patches that we are now going to be wearing on our class A uniforms will likely be pretty heavy and make pretty good kilt pins perhaps!

kiltedwolfman · #4 01-17-2010, 04:06 PM

Hey Xena, the Seaforths are a great bunch, I had a few drams with "Smokie" and was honoured to see him off at his funeral.
Here in Edmonton I'm riding with the LdSH ( RC ) and now counting the days down. I'm 161 and a wake up from being a civi again. I'll be re-upping post haste though; going blue this time ( MED-TECH). I'm getting too old and crotchety for combat arms LOL.

xena · #5 01-17-2010, 09:39 PM

Roger that! Yeah, Smokie was a bit of a character! You should have seen the panic when he'd had a bit much in the JR's and we were paranoid about him falling down the stairs leaving the mess. That'd be a bit potentially awkward to explain for the demise of the last living recipient of the Victoria Cross. Thank goodness nothing happened!

I've been out for about nine years now and was having a brain fa*t about who the "canned fruit" in Edmonton were. (I joke! Don't hate me!) I've heard good things about the Strats.

What do you mean by "going blue"? Are you going Air for medic? That'd be cool. Believe it or not I was and Air Force clerk (with 407 Sqn in Comox and 2 RCR in Gagetown) before I pulled the pin on the Regs and went Reserve with the Seaforths in Vancouver. I'd heard about the Seaforths while I was in Gagetown. They had a good reputation all the way on the other side of the country!

One of my best friends in the service was an Air Force clerk posted to the Strats. That was his first unit. He went on to serve on the HMCS Regina and was a member of the ship's boarding party. It figures he'd do stuff like that. He was nuts.

But, all this reminiscing has very little to do with the point of the thread. My apologies.

What is the backing of the badge like? Is it a slide on thing like the cornflake, or a cotter-pin type thing? I'm just afraid of punching holes in any sporran I've got, in case I mess it up.

kiltedwolfman · #6 01-17-2010, 11:36 PM

It's a cotter pin. I'm making a leopard printed sporran next and might punch holes in the flap so I can swap the cap badge between the two. Then again I know that if I look enough I can find something else nice to adorn the flap so I'm not worried.

I've been approached by the Scottish shop here to sell some of my sporrans on consignment through their store. I might ponder it, more to follow on that.

KiltedChief · #7 01-21-2010, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by longhuntr74

Very few US Army Regimental crests would make very good sporran badges I fear...the Brits and Canadians have a huge leg up on us I think...ours are too small and too much colored enamel. The new metal division and other patches that we are now going to be wearing on our class A uniforms will likely be pretty heavy and make pretty good kilt pins perhaps!

Don't want to sound like a repete but I was thinking the samething, that the new combat pin for the new blue class A's would make a good kilt pin.