The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.

I don't know the reason for the opposite orientation of the U.S. Flag on
that soldier's uniform, but any Army Ranger should know why the uniform
shoulder patches are different.

And any woud-be Ranger that doesn't know, probably never was a Ranger.

--
WB
..........


"rangerssuck" wrote in message
...
The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.

"rangerssuck" wrote in message
...
The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.



Have a gander at these links:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theor.../f/faqflag.htm
http://www.usflag.org/flagpatch.html

On Nov 22, 8:34*am, "Dennis" wrote:
"rangerssuck" wrote in message

...

The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.

Have a gander at these links:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theor...flagpatch.html

Thanks, Dennis.

On Nov 22, 8:53*am, rangerssuck wrote:
On Nov 22, 8:34*am, "Dennis" wrote:





"rangerssuck" wrote in message

...

The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.

Have a gander at these links:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theor....htmhttp://www...

Thanks, Dennis.

For anyone interested, the full story is on pages 240 & 241 of
http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r670_1.pdf

I asked a soldier this, one time. The stars go forward, toward the
battle. The signifigance is "moving forward, never retreating".

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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"Wild_Bill" wrote in message
news I don't know the reason for the opposite orientation of the U.S. Flag
on
that soldier's uniform, but any Army Ranger should know why the
uniform
shoulder patches are different.

And any woud-be Ranger that doesn't know, probably never was a Ranger.

--
WB
..........


"rangerssuck" wrote in message
...
The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code.
Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains,
guts
and humility.

My guess it was for the other shoulder and was ordered to swap patches
for the camera.

It is very unlikely it was a sign of distress, but possible.

Martin

On 11/21/2010 7:56 PM, rangerssuck wrote:
The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.

On Nov 22, 10:17*pm, Martin Eastburn
wrote:
My guess it was for the other shoulder and was ordered to swap patches
for the camera.

It is very unlikely it was a sign of distress, but possible.

Martin

No, Dennis answered correctly, and I confirmed it by following his
links. Besides, wouldn't the "distrees" sign be flying the flag upside-
down?

On Nov 21, 3:56*pm, rangerssuck wrote:
The other night, we were watching Medal of Honor recipient Sgt.
Salvatore Giunta on TV. He was in uniform, though not a formal dress
uniform. My wife noticed that on his right arm he wore a flag patch
that appeared backwards - the blue field with stars was in the upper
right.

I've never seen (or at least never noticed) that before. Actually, I
thought the stars in the upper left was specified in the flag code. Do
any of you have any insight on this?

BTW, Giunta is definitely a guy you'd want on your team. Brains, guts
and humility.

I believe you were thinking of the one for hanging a flag vertically.
Karl