Sadam era "Commando" patches

Hey Steve

I have another variation

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Nice !!!

Steveo, I mentioned this in your other thread, but these aren't necessarily Airborne insignia. It is a common insignia, the current forces use the same, or similar, and trust me, they are not Airborne. My Police Commandos wore them, I would get a kick out of teasing them about it all the time. Not sure what the whole concept is behind wearing all this, but if you were to look at pics from there, you will see it more often than not.

I kinda figured that Mike since Im sure making the jumps for them would not be easy in that country , I will change it to "commando" LOL since that is what everyone else call them LOL.

Steve, heres some exsmples. The first one is recent, from this summer and my latest trips. The others are from earlier, but you can see the insignia :
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Thanks Mike , we were just discussing the Kuwait camo in the second pic as someone is selling it on ebay as Iraqi Dog Handler camo , there it is in use thanks to you Bro !!!!!

Your welcome, glad to be of help. And are u referring to the camo in the background on top of my turret? I might have more pics of it in use. i was told it was jordanian or syrian not kuwaiti? They just buy it in the local markets.

Yhea thats the camo , the story going around is it was originally Kuwaiti , and was captured by Saddam's guys and brought back to Iraq in large numbers , and has been dribbling out since, but that could just be a story , it could be Jordanian or Syrian, I will see if my Inlaws can read the tags as the tags have all looked the same in every set I have seen .

More of the camo and patches for you...

Thanks Mike , Great pics !!!

Left this comment elsewhere but figured I'd leave it here too..
I'm doing some research on a few Iraqi uniforms I have, and feel I can contribute a little here about the Iraqi "SF"

As far as the "New Iraqi forces" (post Saddam, 2003-2013), pretty much all units were "special forces" and "airborne", but in name, or rather, insignia, only. I never knew of any of them that actually recieved any airborne training, had ever jumped out of an aircraft, or had very much specialized training, but the vast majority of them wore some variant of airborne wing patches, and some form of an elite unit patch, often copied from US units. Both of my team leaders were airborne qualified and would relentlessly bust their stones for wearing wings and having never jumped.

It definitely seemed like their biggest concern was looking cool; they would often show up to do patrols with us wearing every piece of gear they could lay their hands on, and would literally stuff pouches with newspaper to make then appear as if they were full instead of actually carrying the crap they were supposed to (especially magazine pouches, which was frustrating for obvious reasons) They also had a tendency to wear multiple pair of knee pads, one on the knees and then a pair or two aroumd their lower legs. I once saw a dude wearing 3 pair of knee pads around his lower legs, I kid you not.

Generally speaking these dudes were completely useless (there were a few exceptions) and we did everything we could to avoid having them on missions with us. We also had the "pleasure" of training them on a firing range once a week while our vehicle crews did maintenance on the Strykers. We would recieve several tall 81mm mortar cans full of loose 5.56 (probably 2-3 thousand rounds) that we were supposed to let them shoot, but we learned very quickly to give them each 2 magazines, make them shoot it as quickly as possible, and kick them the -F- off the range and shoot the rest of the ammo ourselves. I struggle to find the words to fully articulate how insanely unsafe their firearms handling was. Despite our best efforts they just didn't seem to take it seriously or care; being on the firing line with these dudes was super sketchy.