USN NAVY NATO ALLIED COMMAND CHANNEL NATIONAL WEDDING 1982 COLOR PATCH VINTAGE For Sale

COMMAND CHANNEL NATIONAL WEDDING 1982 COLOR PATCH VINTAGE . Condition is Pre-owned. FREE SHIPPING! Shipped with USPS stamped mail.

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Allied Command Channel (ACCHAN) was one of three major North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commands from 1952 to 1994. Commander-in-Chief Channel was a Major NATO Commander (MNC).

The Command was established in 1952 to defend the sea areas and allied shipping around the English Channel. In case of war with the Warsaw Pact, United States reinforcements, crucial to defeat a Soviet advance towards the Rhine, would have passed through the English Channel and disembarked mainly in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. Therefore, ACCHAN's area of operations included most of the Southern part of the North Sea and all of the Channel up to the Celtic Sea.

Northern Wedding was a NATO Cold War naval military exercise, designed to test NATO's ability to rearm and resupply Western Europe during times of war with the Warsaw Pact. In 1978, it was described as being 'conducted every four years', but by the mid-1980s, Exercise Ocean Safari was being run in odd-numbered years, 'every other year, alternating with Northern Wedding.

1982 Late August to September. 160 ships and 250 aircraft participated in the exercise. And there were two amphibious landings.

My father was a Colonel in the USAF and collected patches from every Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine unit he visited all over the Country and World to give to me as souvenirs.  At least that is how it started, now I'm selling the collection AND buying and re-selling, seems this hobby is quite addictive!  Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS First Class Package. Shipping is free!  Please view all pictures closely as they are to be considered part of the description. Thank you for looking. Please check out all my sales and buy it now listings as they are part of my collection which I am currently liquidating. Lots more to come!

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