I've spent the last few days appraising non-military things for an upcoming estate sale for a guy who was in Special Forces in Vietnam (he's still alive - this is a downsizing and moving sale).
He no longer lives in the house, but has come by a couple times and we chatted about his Army days and his 38 years in law enforcement after that. He has his Purple Heart, Bronze Star and a couple of other artifacts from his service, but said that was about it.
As I was leaving the house tonight, I came across this in a stack of items to be sold. The estate sale operator gave it to me, but I'm a bit unsure about these, were they something worn stateside in a training school?
Subdued twill MACV Recondo School pocket award patch. The Recondo School, sometimes referred to as LRRP finishing school, was a tough. Recondo number 1114 for example indicated that a soldier was the 1114 graduate from the school. Graduates wore the patch till the mid 80’s when the Army directed that certain patches were no longer authorized on the new BDU uniform.
![Recondo Recondo](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125727052/362175630.jpg)