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[chaotic_nipple]

Why the heck is this Iraqi:



Wearing a DLI pin? I somehow doubt that either A) He's affiliated with that fine institution, or B) That crest means something else in some other context. Apparently, Iraqi officers just get to make up their own damned uniforms. :-P

Edit: For comparison purposes, here's a picture of the crest by itself:

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[corwynofamber.livejournal.com]

Not sure it looks all that close...

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Looks rather close to me.



Granted, I first saw this story in the print version of New York Times, and the picture was a little bit clearer.

[corwynofamber.livejournal.com]

Well, being amused by the whole thing, I blew up the picture to 1500%, then I found a link to a picture of an acutal pin
http://www.dli-alumni.org/dli_lapelpin.htm
The pin he is wearing appaers to be missing the flame on the top and scroll work on the bottom. It also appears that the diagonl bar is green rather gold.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Since about, I think, 1992 the official uniform pin-on crests have been these ones:

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/chaotic_nipple/?action=view&current=dlicrest.jpg)

Probably the scrollwork and torch on the old ones kept chipping off or something. Or maybe the insignia was changed arbitrarily, as the Army often does.

damn mr nipple

[madisonmassage.livejournal.com]

ok ok i say again where the fuck do you find this stuff???
some random pic of an iraqi with a dli pin...????
what do you have a trained monkey chained to a spare computer in the basement or something?????

Re: damn mr nipple

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish.

[blue-chicory.livejournal.com]

Dude, there is no diagonal gold bar, and nothing out the top of the shield. You're imagining things, bud.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

See above. :-P