Posted on Mar 27, 2019
Can people who are not a 74D wear the CBRN patch?
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I am the CBRN NCOIC for my CBRN locker at my unit, but i am not a 74D. I just did the 2 week CBRN defense course, am i authorized to wear the CBRN patch while doing CBRN training?
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No, and you'll save some ridicule not wearing one.
The answer is in the message when it was originally approved.
ALARACT 195/2008: "THE SUBDUED CBRN INSIGNIA IS WORN WITH UTILITY UNIFORMS BY CMF 74/BRANCH 74 PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN CBRN OPERATIONS DOMESTIC AND IN THE FIELD WHEN AUTHORIZED BY THE LOCAL COMMANDER."
A CBRN operations domestic example would be a 74D WMD CST member. In the field example would be in an operations center to rapidly identify the CBRN personnel (as if most folks wouldn't know who was who without a brassard).
The CBRN brassard is a joke among many CBRN NCOs, who will give the side eye to a 74D wearing one, much less anyone else.
The answer is in the message when it was originally approved.
ALARACT 195/2008: "THE SUBDUED CBRN INSIGNIA IS WORN WITH UTILITY UNIFORMS BY CMF 74/BRANCH 74 PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN CBRN OPERATIONS DOMESTIC AND IN THE FIELD WHEN AUTHORIZED BY THE LOCAL COMMANDER."
A CBRN operations domestic example would be a 74D WMD CST member. In the field example would be in an operations center to rapidly identify the CBRN personnel (as if most folks wouldn't know who was who without a brassard).
The CBRN brassard is a joke among many CBRN NCOs, who will give the side eye to a 74D wearing one, much less anyone else.
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Commander discretion. I certainly never ran into any company CBRN NCO who was allowed the patch unless they were that MOS, even as a secondary MOS.
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