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Permalink Reply by John Rulli Jr. on March 28, 2009 at 5:08pm

Field of stars leads off

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on March 28, 2009 at 7:01pm

An update - we went with flag decals on the rear compartment doors. They're made to fit the roll-up doors on our new engines. The one shown was the first one in service. We didn't think it was large enough, so we changed to a large size that's about 3 or 4 inches wider.

I've also found out that one of my earlier comments wasn't 100% accurate - flags that show the Stars and Stripes on both sides are considered flags, but patches and decals that only show the Stars and Stripes on one side are not considered flags, they're considered "flag replicas" and are not technically subject to the same rules, since they can't be hoisted, lowered, or flown at half-staff. We keep ours clean as if they were actual flags, regardless.

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Permalink Reply by Trainer on March 29, 2009 at 7:39am

We flew one at the local parade some years back, placed it in the pipe of the deck gun mounted mid-ship on top, believe it or not we knocked out cable TV to the whole town when it ripped the wire down. I still can’t believe it didn’t at least bend the aluminum flag pole, it was impressive flying high above the truck, but we won’t be doing that again. Just so you don’t start lecturing about power lines, we measured and was ok for that but the local cable company didn’t follow the height standard.

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Permalink Reply by Doc82 on March 30, 2009 at 11:59am

As was mentioned earlier, when mounted on a vehicle should be on the right bumper of the vehicle when facing forward. A good rule of thumb is to picture where you would place the colors in a color guard. The same goes for vehicles.

The one difference between Military and Civilian wear of a full color flag patch is that in the military, when the flag is worn on the right sleeve, it is worn with the union to the right as viewed, so that the flag appears to be flying forward because we should always be advancing and never retreating. Normally civilian wear on the right sleeve is still governed by the flag code where the union is to the viewers left.

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Permalink Reply by Teddy on March 30, 2009 at 12:05pm

We do the same thing. We have decals on our rigs of flags alway, but on memorial day and july 4th, we run them off the mirrors.

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