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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by sammalloy on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:46PM (#32968755)
I could swear there was a discussion here or on Reddit about a year ago that talked about military insignias and how some of them were intended to be lighthearted and poke fun. Does anyone remember that thread?
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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by SturgeonsLaw on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:08AM (#32968866)
Surely whoever designed those was tripping balls
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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by ch4s3 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:16AM (#32968905)
Power is a hell of a drug
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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by quickthrower2 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:46AM (#32969245)
They could easily be graffiti insignia for an illegal rave.
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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by pigbearpig on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:09AM (#32968868)
The morale (semi-official) or unofficial ones certainly usually have an element of humor or ridiculousness. The official ones must follow guidelines and must be approved, so that has taken a bit of the fun out of it.

Some info on the official process. AFI 84-105 CH 3 https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_ho/public...

Guide to AF Heraldry https://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/Organizational...

Edit: Just to be clear - this example, National Intelligence Manager for Aviation (NIM-A) is part of the cabinet and not the DoD / USAF and wouldn't have to follow those examples.

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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by ethbr0 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:31AM (#32969176)
Can also add that the weather unit out of Dobbins has a good sense of humor.

Saw their convoy coming back from running post-hurricane weather radar on the Florida pan-handle -- a long line of Humvees and all-black trailers festooned with antennas.

And most of them had alien head stickers on their trailers.

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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by acdanger on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:50PM (#32968773)
The artist Trevor Paglen did a project where he collected these. There’s a book: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2018/may/22/trev...

Edit: fixed typo

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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by maxbond on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:55PM (#32968805)
This talk of theirs is worth watching, they mention the military patches: https://youtu.be/lvEMSRKniWk
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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by etrautmann on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:48PM (#32968770)
There was the NRO badge discussion, can’t find the main thread but see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646853

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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by janee on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:08AM (#32969314)
I think it's this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202600

The nuclear command badges are also pretty good https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21214730

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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by brabarossa on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:55PM (#32968801)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29631682

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches

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Re:New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO by jdiennbn on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:04AM (#32969079)
Referring to this article?

https://thedebrief.org/mysterious-insignias-and-symbols-from...

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