Help in identifying Military Patch

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Military Patch identification
Thanks for answering, but I don't have a URL for the image.
I am not able to attach to email??..or do a cut/paste.
If you could tell me what I am doing wrong I will send the image.

can you upload the image to a hosting company such as imageshack?

militarypatch identification



or direct link
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5210/militarypatchpq4.jpg

See if this works!

That is the rank insignia for a Navy Chief Petty Officer (E-7).

http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states-navy-enlisted-rates

It is the rating badge of a U.S. Navy First Class Petty officer (E-6). The "MO" and other figures indicate the technical specialty. These come and go, and I don't recognize the one in your picture. A guess is that it might be for Mine Warfare a "mineman".

btw, in looking at teh larger image at teh hosting site, what you refer to as "three round embroided balls connected to center embroided circle with opening in the middle" is, I think, a propeller.

The E-6 insignia doesn't have the upward arch as the one in his pic has.

Military patch
Thanks for all the help!
Is this a standard patch or can it be dated?

I have no info on dating the patch. I also can't find anything on the "M O".

The propeller in teh center indicates that the person who wore the rank was a Machinist's Mate.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=263

Maybe the "M O" is used to designate a Machinist "Officer" vs. "Mate"??? I dunno. You'd need to track down a Navy guy to answer that one.

It's probably dated. The use of the propeller might mean that this is the petty officer equivalent of a machinist's mate, and it might date from early in the period during which the United States Navy switched from sail to steam. "MO" might refer to a "machinist" of some sort. In the late 19th and early 20th century, machinist mates were expected to know how to repair and maintain any type of machinery on board, from steam engines to electrical generators.

I could be completely wrong, but i suspect this insignia dates from a period between the 1890s and the Great War, and that it refers to someone with a rating as a "machinist."

I just did a web search for acronyms, and "MO" might stand for maintenance officer.

Military Patch identification
Thanks again for all the help out there.
With the information you gave, I did find that the MO stands for Motor Machinist Mate.

Heh, waayyy to much free time on my hands today with the thunder storms here.

I found another site that mentions that the "M O" would be a "Motor Machinist's Mate". Apparently these were further broken down between Diesel and gasoline engines as well.

There is a patch identical to the one linked that can be found here:
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/patches/other2/ngrade4.html

That site indicates that it is a WWII era patch.

its a navy machinest patch

You have joined a thread that died 7 years ago.

Yeah, but it was good to see fishin again.