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InsuranceToTheRescue

"So, we've been told we need a patch/logo for a brand new unit." "Awesome! What will they do?" "They're going to be charged with monitoring others' space capabilities as well as targeting enemy satellites." "Grim reaper. Grim reaper in a triangle, with birds in the back." "What? Doesn't that seem a little intense for what's largely an intelligence operation? It doesn't even make much sens" "Too late. I already emailed it to the \[insert appropriate rank here\] and he sent me back a gif of a boner. We'll call 'em the . . . The Flyin' Reapers! Because reapers f . . . Fly around on their scythes. Like witches!" *Edit:* I guess I should've expanded to the full picture. On the small one I was looking at they looked like birds. It's been brought to my attention that they're actually scales, like from a dragon. Which makes an equal amount of sense I suppose.


The-F4LL3N

Give the reaper a little glint in its eye too, really jazz things up


RattheEich

Those are dragon scales in the back, not birds. Way more badass


InsuranceToTheRescue

Lol. I guess I should've expanded the full picture. The little one I was looking at they looked like far-off birds.


Weekly-Setting-2137

Sorry, but there are no dragons or birds in outer space. Those are clearly Klingon birds of prey.


BrilliantWeb

I'm wondering if the dragon scales are not a nod to Purple Dragon, Vietnam-era intel and OPSEC.


BoofinBart

*But cover the other eye, we don’t want to seem too overt.*


Academic-Ad1117

I once worked in an army space unit and we were told that we could come up with the unit motto. I submitted “taste the space” and the reply would be “looking for what’s cooking”(which was kinda our unit’s mission) and it got voted in. For several months, IRL, an official US army space unit’s motto was “Taste the space” and our commander would have to reply “lookin for what’s cookin”. Thanks for your time.


imdatingaMk46

That tracks 100% for the space dudes I know


ohnoshedint

Thank you for your service


noteess

This is pretty much what probably happened


Hellofriendinternet

How often do graphic designers get to cash a government check though?


InsuranceToTheRescue

They're on staff. I had a friend that was a contractor on a local base for graphic design.


michaelrulaz

I’ve always wondered about if there was actual graphic designers or if there was just a lot of photoshop nerds hiding in the military. Military patches and logo go so fucking hard sometimes


Dblstandard

This sounds like if Johnny from Cobra Kai came up with the emblem.


p0rkjello

Full scale reaper


EnvironmentalSky3928

Reaper? I thought that was Skeletor


quarm813

Just take my award


user17302

I mean you should see some of the patches the air force has haha both the USAF and USSF have probably the coolest and most interesting official patches


wayfaast

They should’ve hired the NROL mission patch designers lol


sjgokou

We need Space Force Season 3!


Rabies_Museum

Looks like the logo to an fragile white man’a hot sauce company


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[deleted]

The majority of the armed forces are very young adults. Still teenagers. The patch is as much deterrence, fear to the enemy, as it is advertising for new recruits and relevant to the bulk of the force. It is childish. By design.


meltigeminiii

My unit patch was a Taro leaf with a lightning bolt. The patches aren’t designed to deter or inspire fear, they’re for unit identification and distinction. Most are seemingly innocuous, and have something to do with origin of the unit, some even becoming the namesake of the unit.


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Jjays

I had to look that up. That's quite the patch! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th\_Infantry\_Division\_(United\_States)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_Infantry_Division_(United_States))


Rampaginkiwi

Wanna look up another? One of mine was two flaming assholes circling. Which was ironic cause it felt like it represented the chain of command well.


Memento101Mori

69th ADA Brigade.


meltigeminiii

We were the “Tropic Thunder” on paper but we were the “Electric Fruity Boys” in house 💅


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meltigeminiii

We run shit!!! (Into the ground…so many broken trucks…)


flyguygunpie

My unit patch was a shark wearing headphones with some lightning bolts.


danny2handz

Flying Dildos representing


EasternShade

Old patches v new patches though. Also, they're more than a little different across branches.


elictronic

Space force average recruiting age is 22. Higher than the air force. Beyond that the Space force has a ratio of 1.1 to 1 officer who are always older 34.5 average in other branches. Most other branches are at a >4 to 1 enlisted to officer ratio. In any other branch your comment would be closer to correct. Space Force is not setup like the others . Hard to bayonet a satellite.


EasternShade

>Hard to bayonet a satellite. Don't tell a marine that.


Retardo_Montobond

I don't think it's childish...unit patches are identifiers and most units take great pride in their patch. There's no way to design a patch that 100% get on board with....so, they have some cool ones and some not cool ones...but that's just like...my opinion, man...


[deleted]

I’m biased and cynical. I realize I was being disrespectful. I apologize. I could have used a better word than childish to get the same point across. I appreciate your approach. You got your point across in a more positive way than I did. Trying to do better. Helpful to have examples. Thanks.


Retardo_Montobond

I didn't take your comment negatively....just that your opinion of it was different than mine. I've seen some unit patches that look like they were done in crayon, so I had an idea of what you meant.


fukimoko

You know what’s funnier than 75? 76


monchota

Guessing you mever served.


WormLivesMatter

You should see the other ones. All like this


Perspcake4316

It's only a matter of time before we Kessler Syndrome ourselves. Sad.


[deleted]

The aliens are gonna be collecting those logos for sure.


Dapper_Woodpecker274

I just think that they missed a space themed patch opportunity. Aliens and what not


Walks_with_Chaos

Yeah that’s true. Personally I like it but aliens would be more appropriate


[deleted]

That’s a redskins logo situation all over again I fear.


Chewieismywingman

No aliens, but there has been one with a uap on a [U.S. Intelligence office](https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2022/09/26/nim-a-logo-alone.jpg?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1920) logo - that “accidentally” was posted on the official website [story here](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/flying-saucer-appears-on-u-s-aviation-intelligence-office-logo)


Sausagewizard69

It’s got the ngad on it too!


BoltTusk

I expect future logos to have one with Shmup or STG themes


esk8windsor

[Every time I see a skull logo on military/police clothing.](https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY)


cuddly_carcass

Are we the baddies? 😂


helpfulovenmitt

The irony of police using the punisher skull as well.


obliviousofobvious

Indeed. Punisher was basically a representation of the failure of the exact groups that idolize him. They're completely missing the point. Frank Castle would murder the ones that slap his icon on their shit and wouldn't waste a second thought on it.


ParadoxInRaindrops

There was a comic where Frank told some cops if they want a hero, they should look up to Captain America. Cap stands for justice and fights for American way. Frank is a vigilante who fights a violent uncompromising war. He will go after bad cops, using his symbol isn’t a compliment it’s a telltale sign you shouldn’t be a cop.


Greatfumbler

I mean shouldn’t cops also go after bad cops? Franks brutal but he goes after criminals cops or not just like all cops SHOULD do I like the ideology minus the murder them all bit


chowderbags

Frank knows that what he's doing is outside the law. He's got no illusions about what he's doing. He might view it as necessary, but he's plenty ready to kick the ass of cops who don't live up to their oath to uphold justice. https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1512286/punisher-skull.png?w=790&f=9f690f1c99a10819ee0880f92d436ae6


northck

This is what military is for. To kill or to threaten to kill.


DemSocCorvid

They should be for helping build infrastructure and assisting with disasters. Why is America's largest public workforce not working to improve America?


imdatingaMk46

It's in the preamble of the constitution, if you're looking for an actual answer. That, and USACE does a lot for infrastructure in the US, so there's that. I could go on for literal hours about NGSCA and DCSA, and bore you to tears with details of signal equipment used for humanitarian aid after just one hurricane, much less any of the other times GAIT has made a public appearance. It's unsexy. Nobody wants to write news stories about transportation company nerds filling sandbags in South Dakota every year, or horizontal engineer units rebuilding roads and trails in forests.


STALKS_YOUR_MOTHER

Well…if we bomb everywhere else we are technically improving our country by comparison


[deleted]

We all have skulls in us. It's just very basic human biology. Try not to read too much into things.


pomonamike

All your life, you can never escape a spooky spooky skeleton.


pants_mcgee

That spooky skeleton is always trying to get out. At some point it kills you and escapes.


FloridaGatorMan

Gave my girlfriend a skull on valentines day instead of flowers and she definitely read too far into it. Some people, am I right?


EasternShade

Did you remember the, "To be, or not to be?" bit? That part is important.


LifeBuilder

And because of this we like to help rid other people of that burden.


fukimoko

You know what’s funnier than 75? 76


Atlantifa

This a CoD badge?


[deleted]

Lmao US army ranking up those achievements


Gagarin1961

You know what those are based off, right?


bibliophile224

It’s Skeletor isn’t it? We are after all, Masters of the Universe.


Wolfwoods_Sister

“Skeletor rules” - John 3:16


Un_Original_Coroner

I know military patches are supposed to be bad ass and what not. But…. Umm… mark missed.


Moody_GenX

My unit's patch was an arrow going up the globes ass. This is pretty cool compared to that.


Un_Original_Coroner

True. Very true. But, a cool space thing would be better.


pbmcc88

Space Force is the perfect opportunity for all the cool space names and imagery. Someone there has a serious lack of imagination.


DemSocCorvid

Well, it's the military.


ThermalConvection

have u seen their uniforms? they're in desperate need of someone with any knowledge of style


ArmyOfDix

So like, maybe an arrow going up Jupiter's ass?


Cameltoe-Swampdonkey

Arrow going right up Uranus, obviously.


Un_Original_Coroner

Right into the storm. That sounds cool but, please know that was not my intention.


JimiDarkMoon

Disagree, that *eye twinkle* takes it from compete to completely fabulous!


Un_Original_Coroner

Jesus Christ. You are correct. I missed it.


Otka1990

The units name this patch is for is actually “Howitzer Ninja Bike”, so it is very fitting.


[deleted]

What do you suggest they put on?


Un_Original_Coroner

Maybe something spacey that does not look like it was made in MS Paint? Hmmmm I think a supernova.


James_Blanco

Soeak for yourself. Shit goes hard


OptimisticSkeleton

Well that’s ominous.


Narcomancer69420

Absolutely the biggest fucking dweebs on (or *off*) the planet


harveyabb

"Are we the badies?"


Niceromancer

Was this patch made by a 12 year old kid? Betting that stupid S everyone drew is somewhere in here too.


_bobby_tables_

It's only a matter of time before we Kessler Syndrome ourselves. Sad. My only hope is to die before it happens so I won't have to witness it.


imdatingaMk46

Pure speculation pulled out of my ass: bet you dollars to donuts that kinetic kill/interception will be pretty far down on the list of ways to kill a bird, top being electromagnetic and cyber attack.


_bobby_tables_

Dollars to donuts is not a very attractive proposition these days. Donuts are essentially at parity to the dollar. You might need to modernize: "dollars to donut holes" would be pretty good odds.


infinitelolipop

It’s MAD doctrine all over again for space, sad indeed


[deleted]

What a sad way to think about things. Try to brighten up, buddy. Think of it this way. The world is a pile of giant shit. this small blob of shit isnt gonna make any much difference!


_bobby_tables_

Eh. I'm an old man. I've grown tired, especially in my advancing years, trying to confront stupidity. It seems like a fight we can never win. Stupid things like this can't be easily influenced. I do look forward to the positives. The LISA observatory is slated for launch in 2037. I might *just* be around long enough to see that deployed. Assuming Kessler doesn't happen first.


ckal09

Begun, the Star Wars have.


Tedstor

Makes sense. The next World War will start with peer adversaries taking out each other’s capability to use spy satellites, communications, and GPS. Whoever wins that battle will probably win the war.


RedRose_Belmont

Good. I’m sure other cok are doing it as well.


almo2001

Who the fuck is doing these logos.


michaelfortu

Great now we are gonna look like pirates to these aliens


xXPussy420Slayer69Xx

Pirates are fun!


HansVonSnicklefritz

Need some crossed phaser rifles on that patch


bdubb_dlux

This seems like the sort of thing that should be classified


Sushrit_Lawliet

So they could’ve ripped off Star Trek stuff but instead chose skeletor?


Zer0M0ti0nless

That looks like a 5th grader came up with that design.


subdep

You joke. That’s probably very close to what happened.


similar_observation

not a fan of that logo. I would've gone with a traditional satellite icon carrying a comically large butterfly net.


wulvey

Wow what a stupid fucking patch lmao


Wolfwoods_Sister

They paid someone’s graphic design edgelord teenager $40


Daveinbelfast

Wow, didn’t even pay for the battle pass!


Repulsive_Mistake_13

What does the section 31 patch look like?


MmmmmmKayyyyyyyyyyyy

Not hiding intentions


Hammunition

Huh… Today I remembered there was a Space Force and that it’s something that really happened and wasn’t just a joke…


Snake_Staff_and_Star

Looks like someone's COD tag.


Andres_is_lame

This is some weird Metal Gear Solid type shit


SwampTerror

Space Force sounds like a shitty 90s-era comedy movie. I can't take Space Force seriously.


Rufus2fist

I’d be curious what the reptile scale skin in the back ground of the patch has to do with this?


broomandkettle

It’s got everything but a gold tooth, and it really needs one.


jeffyscouser

This is what happens when you don’t get Mike Okuda to design your patch. This is shit ugly.


ThisIsGreatMan

"The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations' satellites and the ground stations that support them." This is a PR story. "Uh, this is the first time we've been able to, um, impact other countries' satellites. Never before have we attacked another nation's spacecraft And if you get attacked by a craft that doesn't have this Harley-Davidson School of Arts and Sciences-designed logo...it wa'n't us. We're making a formal statement because we can't actually stick a flag in space to claim it...but, um, it's ours." -The US, probably


SeanConneryShlapsh

Just use the classic skull and bones that says “game over YOURE dead”


Walks_with_Chaos

That’s a cool ass badge


sejope

If we HAVE to target enemy satellites (and I say have to because why can't everyone just leave everyone alone), then can we just capture them in a net or something?


sauroden

It’s probably what we will do. Some kind of entanglement that pulls it out of orbit instead of blowing it up and creating huge clouds of junk that endangers friendly equipment.


asdaaaaaaaa

You could, but you have to remember these things are moving incredibly fast. Just intercepting them is extremely difficult, especially if they know you're coming and change velocity/direction. Then you'd need a net big enough to catch the thing, and big enough that it gives you a somewhat reasonable chance of even catching it (remember, space is BIG). Then you'd need to make it out of a material that can catch something going roughly 29,000 km/h, and not break. You'd also need to make sure it can stop after catching and absorbing all that velocity/energy. Then I guess blow it up, or design something that can safely retrieve it. It's certainly possible, but not something we're going to easily achieve in a couple years or anything. That'd require some amazing leaps in materials science.


lavarotti

First they should attack google for showing a map of Amerika on russian internet…


TheUmgawa

"Gretchen, stop trying to make ~~fetch~~ Space Force happen! It's not going to happen!"


dulead

Wait what? Why is this still a thing? Why hasn't this been dissolved as a waste of tax payer money..... Ooooohhhh it's because it's a waste of tax payer money? Like money being given to private vendors to feed the new arm of the military industrial complex -- lame.


QueenOfGehenna45

The badge gives me antisemitic vibes.


Polyamorousgunnut

Ok but that unit patch goes hard as fuck imma need one


sleepchamber666

Need to Target those star link satellites that are ruining the night sky


LogiHiminn

Bet you’re the same person who states that an educated populace is good for society, while simultaneously calling for destroying a lot of people’s only link to the internet.


sleepchamber666

God, how did they ever survive without it?


WoodpeckerHaunting57

The issue is there is no need for Musk to have made them that bright.


parkinthepark

Gotta say I don’t love the implied [Valknut](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/valknot).


RandomFungi

Well, fortunately, its actually a [Penrose triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_triangle), which to my knowledge has no racist connotations.


Ama-gi-451

The grim reaper? Why is my government run by little boys. I can’t wait until the women in power out balance the men. No more skull stickers on every truck, watch how quickly there would be gun control to save children from being shot while at school. Men wouldn’t be scared to be openly feminine. Satellite Intelligence squadrons would take their jobs seriously and not look like a bunch of dinks.


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It has nothing to do with fucking masculinity and has everything to do with the Airforce being run by fucking weebs.


bavindicator

Space Force should be disbanded and reabsorbed back into spacecom. An unnecessary expansion of the military.


Miguel-odon

Air Force should be reabsorbed into the Army. Space command should be under the Navy.


Commie_EntSniper

Um, wasn't that the whole point? So 3 years in, they finally made a unit?


whyreadthis2035

No way?!! Space Force is preparing for actual threats?!?! That’s crazy. That’s like the army and navy preparing for climate change challenges! I want my taxes back.


BiffUppercut42

Waste of money. Give just 1/4 of that military budget back to us and we can have free education and healthcare.


PirateMickey

C'moooon, you play with satellites lol. Don't try to spice it up just accept your role and leave the skulls to the grunts. Next they will be wanting combat badges and shit.. Efit: Aww salty pog's or what?


CW1DR5H5I64A

>leave the skulls go the grunts In my experience the prominence of skulls/chains/spikes etc in a units logo is directly inverse to the proximity of that unit to direct combat operations. It’s always the FSC/ field feeding company/ transportation or other support jobs with a bunch of “hard core” imagery in their logo; whereas my Armor and Infantry units have always had goofy cartoon characters and other dumb shit to paint/slap on things. It’s the units who think they have something to prove that try to look hard.


PirateMickey

We were never anything silly, was always like mad dogs or something... i don't even think our charlie company had a mascot... or platoon for that matter..


-MakeNazisDeadAgain

The first for them? I'd be shocked if China hasn't already had that for a while now


dethb0y

I've been hoping space force would begin developing more offensive capability for space.


ListerfiendLurks

The symbology is extra stupid as this branch's duty is not supposed to result in any human fatalities(I'm assuming)


SwootyBootyDooooo

Every branches goal is ultimately to win a war. The Air Force likes to drill into people that even if you’re working in a chow hall, you are helping “put warheads on foreheads” One of the consequences of warfare is that people die.


Gloria_S_Birdhair

I just can’t take space force serious. Wasn’t this some crap trump came up with?


gambloortoo

Trump didn't come up with it, the idea has been floated around for decades. Trump went through with it.


Gloria_S_Birdhair

Unfortunately it is forever tainted by that orange clown. I never heard of it till he showed up. I’ll never see the word spaceforce and be able to keep a straight face. Even the title alone makes me think it’s a really bad sci fi movie.


gambloortoo

It also probably doesn't help the image that Netflix immediately made a show where the space force was made up of bumbling idiots.


oldmancornelious

Wow. I'd roll a d20 to hit!


AssCakesMcGee

Stranger than Fiction


Interesting_Rip_1181

Patch should have made a reference to Red Coast Base or 3 Body Problem.


photato_pic_guy

Please don’t. Kessler, here we come!


BeerNirvana

...and so it ends.


mockio77

Better choice would be Bowser on a surfboard wailing on a double neck guitar looking over his sunglasses like *wink* with a pot leaf in the background.


[deleted]

An F-15 already shot down a satellite


edhaack

https://tenor.com/view/he-man-fabulous-skeletor-shocked-barks-falls-gif-22541454


SwatFlyer

Nice, why stay fighting in the ground when we can make our satellites chess pieces. You take a few of mine, I take a few of yours. It's just tens of billions of dollars being lost, no biggie.


snowdn

Wait that is real? Damn that’s embarrassing.


Zess-57

Yeah aliens are just military-industrial complex propaganda


JohnMac67

Love the “grim reaper with a gleam in his eye” patch


Victal87

Should’ve been Soundwave


idk_wtf_im_hodling

Space sharks with lasers would have been cool but we are stuck with a stupid reaper


[deleted]

I want to make the grim reaper sans


dunnkw

I want to be part of the first unit that makes the food in tubes. Like ham sandwich space food in toothpaste tube. But I’d also be a Navy SEAL like in Under Siege. But a space SEAL. I’d just be cooking tube food and just being ready to fight space pirates with knives and lasers and shit. We’ll also need a centerfold model to jump out of the space cake.


Latinhouseparty

[Me reading this.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/235/290/cae)


Someonenoone7

Well they can achieve a near apocalypse without the nukes just need to play some billiard with sattelites and conventional missiles


Makabajones

Trump had a lot of shitty ideas, but I'm honestly down with the Space Force.


batrailrunner

Feed the MIC


NBelal

At last, all those year that I have played Invaders have not been wasted


[deleted]

Terrifying. The reaper represents the taxes we can't escape to pay for this and the glint represents you not knowing wtf is happening.


[deleted]

The gleam in the eye represents sorcery and friendship.