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Traditional_Lab_5468 t1_iu4r5q9 wrote

Reply to comment by sorrycharlie88 in Ukrainian soldier with vermontese maple syrup and pancakes by kievit4ukraine

The camo answer is pretty obvious. It's by far the easiest pattern to get gear in aftermarket. If you want top of the line shit because you're going to be living in it and fighting a war in it, you're going to be wearing multicam.

As for the flag? Who knows. Maybe he's happy to be getting American supplies and it's just a show of solidarity. Maybe it came with the uniform and he just threw it on there for kicks. Maybe it's a political statement, trying to show that Ukraine is aligned with the West.

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sorrycharlie88 t1_iu59t05 wrote

Good answer to a simple question, thanks.

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Traditional_Lab_5468 t1_iu5foll wrote

Sure. It's also common for units to swap patches when they train together. Not everyone does it, but every time I've trained internationally at least one person has come to swap patches with me. People like to collect them, usually they'll put them all in a shadowbox when they retire. I know the US sent a lot of training teams to Ukraine around 2017-2018 I believe, it's entirely possible he trained with them and the patch was a gift. There could very well be some 18x American SF guy with a matching Ukrainian flag patch somewhere.

There are pictures of Ukrainians wearing all kinds of goofy patches they've collected from the NATO forces sent to help train them up. There's one floating around with a Ukrainian wearing "Don't Mess With Texas" patch lol.

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