Navy Tartan Question

[fluter]

The Edzell tartan and its story are pretty interesting.

I have read that it contains colors representing each of the 4 US branches, all of whom had some presence in the USN unit at RAF Edzell. The dark blue for Army, medium (the marl) for Navy, lighter blue for USAF, and the red stripe for USMC. Which does make one wonder what sort of mission at a radar base would involve all 4 services...

The tartan design by Strathmore was instigated by the USN commanding officer's wife, to commemmorate some substantial period their unit had been in place (20-plus years), a sort of hands-across-the-sea gesture.

Under duress, I can probably come up with a reference for some of the above!

Edzell tartan:
tobermoryXedzell by arcturus1997, on Flickr

[Whidbey78]

Which does make one wonder what sort of mission at a radar base would involve all 4 services...

Joint Ops are much more common than most folks think. In my six years active duty I spent most of my time on joint operations. My first two squadrons did a lot of in-country work with the USMC, and then with ELU I was I-level support for expeditionary EA-6B squadrons assigned to the USAF.

With all the time I spent working with other branches and seeing how they do business, I have to say that I enjoyed working with Marines over everyone else, though most of us squids would disagree.