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 ...

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 ...

Reactions to the patches were mixed. Navy veteran Malcolm Nance, cited by the Daily Caller, called the patch a "novelty" and "unauthorized." Other Trump critics were far less measured in their ...

“Navy leadership is aware of the incident and reviewing to ensure the patch doesn’t violate DoD policy or uniform regulations,” US Navy spokesperson Lt. Sam Boyle told CNN. Several service ...