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Show Shoulder, Sleeve Patches i Being Banished by Army WASHINGTON. The army is banishing all but a few of the unit shoulder patches of World War II. The changes, it said, "are the result re-sult of an effort to decrease individual individ-ual arm or service consciousness and foster an increased ground forces esprit de corps." The -announcement added that sleeve insignia of small non-divisional units including airborne, armored, ar-mored, amphibian and similar organizations or-ganizations would disappear, leaving leav-ing only patches for divisions, corps, armies or army ground forces. |