When a new ship is commissioned into the United States Navy, it is given a name ... not only had fierce names, but fierce insignia as well. Their patches depicted fighting fish, mermaids riding ...

Watering holes near military bases would sometimes carry the insignia on their walls. Another, more intuitive source of patches: FOIA requests, which are applications filed with the US government ...

One of the most enduring traditions of the Army-Navy Game involves the special patches players on both ... Michael Self enlisted in the United States Navy and served six years as an electronics ...