Okay, okay. I know I promised it would start today. But I've put our off for 24 hours our contest to find the most awesomely bad military patch ever. That's because the master has stepped into the ring.

Trevor Paglen, whose book, I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World, inspired all this patch-mania, has a couple of patches he thought we just had to check out. And, hot damn, are they awesomely bad.

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