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AIRMOBILE FLIGHT JACKET PATCH

GARRYOWEN

7th Cavalry - Vietnam War Patch ( GARRYOWEN )

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The 7th Cavalry, Garryowen sent three Airmobile Battalions to Vietnam. The 1st and 2nd Battalion, a total of over 1,500 operatvies arrived out of Fort Benning in September of 1965 with the 3rd battalion arriving in Vietnam in August of 1966 (out of Fort Carson).

All three battalions served with the 1st Cavalry Division with detached 1st Battalion dedicating sole service to the US Special Forces for a short period.

1st BN, 7th Cavalry left the 1st Cavalry Division in early December 1969 when they temporarily attached to Operation Phoenix missions in the Mekong Delta. Assigned to assistance of Mike Force, US Special Forces and Provincial Recon Units in the Mekong they were based at Phuoc Long.

All units of the 7th Cavalry had returned to the US August of 1972

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Flight Jacket Patch
Measures - 5 x 4.25 inches ( 12.5 x 11 cms )

'The Luck of the Irish' and the Garryowen Battalion.

Some 6 weeks before the Battle of Little Bighorn, the commander of the 7th Cavalry, Lt.Colonel George Armstrong Custer heard a group or Irishmen singing around a campfire. They were singing an Old Irish Song called the Garryowen. The Garryowen song is a song from the West Ireland Town of Limerick lamenting the fight against the British Balliffs, Mayors and Sheriffs.

Custer was so taken with the song that he formed the Irishmen into the Regimental Band adding pipers. In the weeks that followed the song, Garryowen bacame instilled in the 7th Cavalry and Custer, so impressed with the band sent the 46 Irishmen East to play for the Generals and Politicians in Washington. The 7th Cavalry, Irish Pipe Band left the 7th Cavalry in mid June 1876.

They were some hundreds of miles away when, on the 26th of June, 1876 the 7th Cavalry, led by Custer fought the Lokota and North Cheyenne, Native American Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The regimental song, the Garryowen, was played that night in Washington by the only remaining survivors of the Garryowen Regiment, 46 Irishmen from Limerick, Ireland.

From that time forward, the 7th Cavalry have been known as the 'GARRYOWEN'.

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"Garryowen"

Let Bacchus's sons be not dismayed,
but join with me each jovial blade,
come booze and sing and lend your aid,
to help me with the chorus:

"Chorus"

Instead of spa we'll drink down ale
and pay the reckoning on the nail,
for debt no man shall go to jail
from Garry Owen in glory

We are the boys who take delight
in smashing Limerick lamps at night,
and through the street like sportsters fight,
tearing all before us. (Chorus)

We'll break windows, we'll break doors,
the watch knock down by threes and fours,
then let the doctors work their cures,
and tinker up our bruises. (Chorus)

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
we'll make the mayor and sheriffs run,
we are the boys no man dare dun,
if he regards a whole skin. (Chorus)

Our hearts so stout have got us fame,
for soon 'tis known from whence we came,
where're we go they dread the name,
of Garry Owen in glory. (Chorus)

Vietnam War Original

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