ohh--and as for seeing someone wearing a uniform item that I had a connection too--I'll chat with them, and as long as they're respectful about it--I LIKE it. Just like when someone wears my Clan's tartan because they like it.

I saw a young man with unit patches sewn onto a jean jacket--one was of a unit I served in --I VERY small and and short-lived unit. When I told him I served in it--he told me he researched the unit and wore it because he liked our job and our patch--I shook his hand and wished him well.