The military has a long tradition of line crossing ceremonies, initiations, and rite of passage achievements. These patches celebrate just a few of the official & unofficial military certificates. Find all your military ceremony and achievement patches here. Looking for your unit, squadron, or ship patches? We have those too, just click on our logo in the top left of your screen to navigate to our home page.
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Ancient Order of the Shellback King Neptune Patch$9.95$14.95The 00° stitched beside King Neptune's head is the latitude of the Equator, the line every Pollywog has to cross before he can call himself a Shellback. The ceremony that turns one into the other is...$9.95$14.95 -
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US Navy Shellback King Neptune Ancient Order of the Deep Hat Patch$12.95$15.95The crowned, bearded king holding the trident on this patch is Neptunus Rex, and aboard a Navy ship he is traditionally played by the oldest or most senior shellback in the crew. He rules the...$12.95$15.95 -
Blue Nose Realm Of The Arctic Circle Patch$9.95The sailor on this patch has his eyes squeezed shut, his Dixie cup pulled down tight and a nose frozen solid blue, which is about how it feels topside once a ship goes north of the Arctic Circle...$9.95 -
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The United States Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Patch$9.95$11.95The letters running down the missile on this patch read CCCP, the Cyrillic initials of the Soviet Union, and the missile is standing in the middle of Cuba. That is the picture Major Richard Heyser's...$9.95$11.95 -
Domain of the Golden Dragon Embroidered Patch - 180th Meridian Navy Crossing Ceremony$12.95The 180 stitched at the bottom of this patch is the meridian itself, the International Date Line, where a ship steaming west skips a day on the calendar in the time it takes to cross. The Navy lists...$12.95 -
Navy Blue Nose Polar Bear Hat Patch$14.95The blue thread on this polar bear's nose is the whole idea: a sailor who crosses the Arctic Circle aboard ship becomes a Blue Nose. The circle sits at about 66 degrees 34 minutes north, and a ship...$14.95 -
Golden Shellback King Neptune Navy Line Crossing Patch$9.95A Golden Shellback crossed the Equator at the exact spot where it meets the 180th meridian, the one place on the globe where the Line and the International Date Line cross. A regular crossing...$9.95 -
Blue Nose Submarine Arctic Circle Patch$11.95Look at the polar bear's nose: it is stitched blue, because on this patch even the bear has crossed the line. Sailors who take a ship or a boat across the Arctic Circle, above 66 degrees 34 minutes...$11.95 -
Order Of The Ditch Panama Canal Patch$14.95A ship going through the Panama Canal climbs 85 feet through the locks to Gatun Lake and comes back down to sea level on the far side, and the sailors aboard come out members of the Order of the...$14.95 -
Ancient Order of the Shellback King Neptune 3-Inch Patch$12.95The 00 degree mark stitched beside King Neptune's head is latitude zero, and crossing it aboard ship is what turns a Pollywog into a Shellback. A sailor who has never crossed the equator at sea is a...$12.95 -
Blue Nose 66.5 Degrees North Latitude Patch$11.95The Navy has no official medal for crossing the Arctic Circle, and it has never needed one. What it has is the Order of the Blue Nose, an initiation sailors have carried into the high latitudes for...$11.95 -
TWEET DRIVER-Cessna T-37 Trainer Patch$9.95United States AIR FORCE Cessna T-37 Twin Jet Engine Trainer Military Patch TWEET DRIVER The Cessna T-37 Tweet[1] (designated Model 318 by Cessna[2]) is a small, economical twin-engine jet...$9.95 -
Gator Navy Amphibious Fleet Hat Patch$14.95Amphib sailors call themselves the Gator Navy, and this patch stitches their answer to the carrier crowd right on the bottom band: THE TEETH OF THE FLEET. The alligator is the right animal for it. A...$14.95 -
Order of the Rock Strait of Gibraltar Patch$14.95At its narrowest the Strait of Gibraltar is about 14.2 kilometers across, 7.7 nautical miles of water between Europe and Africa, and every ship bound into or out of the Mediterranean has to pass...$14.95 -
Small Cuban Missile Crisis Patch$9.95The letters stacked down the missile read CCCP, which is USSR in Cyrillic, and the missile stands straight through the middle of Cuba. That one picture is the whole crisis of October 1962: Soviet...$9.95 -
Order of Magellan Round the World Navy Circumnavigation Patch$13.95Of the five ships that sailed with Ferdinand Magellan in 1519, only Victoria came home, reaching Spain in 1522 under Juan Sebastian Elcano with 18 men aboard. Magellan himself was killed in the...$13.95 -
United States Navy Veteran Embroidered Patch$13.95Aboard ship it is line, not rope, and every sailor got corrected on that inside his first week. The gold ring around this patch is rope, and nobody is going to correct you on that one. Inside it the...$13.95 -
Blue Nose Realm of the Arctic Circle Small Patch$9.95The sailor on this patch has a blue nose because he crossed the Arctic Circle, and the latitude stitched beside him, 66°32'33"N, marks the line he crossed. Sailors who cross into the Arctic Circle...$9.95 -
Safari To Suez Canal - I Did The Ditch Patch$14.95The Suez Canal runs 120 miles from Port Said to Suez without a single lock, and a ship that enters at one end is still in it eleven to sixteen hours later. Sailors call it the Ditch, and this patch...$14.95 -
Bermuda Triangle Patch$9.95Bermuda Triangle Patch Show your love of adventure and the unknown with this durable and detailed patch! This high-quality patch is made of 100% embroidered polyester and features excellent...$9.95 -
Plank Owner US Navy Commissioning Crew Patch$14.80Plank owner is not an official Navy term, and that is exactly why it has lasted. The title belongs to a sailor who stood in the crew on the day a ship went into commission, and it is kept by the...$14.80 -
U.S. Navy 250th Anniversary Commemorative Embroidered Patch$13.95On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two armed vessels and send them after British supply ships, and that vote is the date the Navy keeps as its birthday. Each of those...$13.95 -
Shellback King Neptune US Marine Corps Patch$13.95Marines ride Navy ships, so Marines cross the equator, and on that day they answer to King Neptune as pollywogs like every sailor aboard. The crossing the line ceremony is older than the US Navy, and...$13.95 -
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E4 Mafia Order of the Shamurai Embroidered Morale Patch$13.95Every Army Specialist learns sooner or later that the rank on his chest is called the sham shield, and this patch gives that shield a samurai order to go with it. E4 MAFIA rides across a red banner,...$13.95 -
Cuban Missile Crisis Large Back Patch$20.95United States Cuban Missile Crisis - Large 9 Inch patch. Wear on your jacket back or set in a frame. Height: 9.00 inches, Width: 9.00 inchesIron-on or sew-on (Sewing on a patch is always the best...$20.95 -
Blue Nose Northern Domain of the Polar Bear Patch$11.95The Blue Nose Northwest Domain Polar Bear Patch is a premium collector’s item, showcasing a unique and vibrant design inspired by the majestic polar bear. Featuring bold blue tones and intricate...$11.95 -
Realm of the Czars - Black Sea Cruise Patch$11.95Realm of the Czars – Black Sea Cruise Patch 4.0" x 4.0" Embroidered Patch with Iron-On Backing Superior Materials: Made with premium polyester thread and durable twill fabric, ensuring long-lasting...$11.95 -
Order of the Sand Sailor - Middle East Service Patch$9.95Two sailors in dixie cups are rowing a boat across open desert, a warship sits stranded on a sand horizon, and the anchor is buried in a dune. If you were a sailor who spent a deployment in the sand,...$9.95 -
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Shellback Ancient Order Embroidered Christmas Tree Ornament$9.95Show off your membership. Order of the deep, Pollywogs beware. Fully embroidered and double-sided.$9.95 -
Blue Nose Patch Collection$65.90Blue Nose Patch Collection In naval tradition, a “Blue Nose” is a sailor who has crossed the Arctic Circle—a rite of passage earned in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. It’s a mark of pride,...$65.90 -
Blue Nose Arctic Circle Christmas Tree Ornament$19.03Show your pride and your enrollment this holiday season.$19.03 -
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Shellback Patch Set: King Neptune, Shellback Hat Patch and Golden Shellback$34.95Three Shellback patches in one set: the Ancient Order of the Shellback King Neptune patch, the Shellback King Neptune hat patch and the Golden Shellback patch.A sailor becomes a Shellback the day his...$34.95